Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
- There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first, the Orwellian culture becomes a prison. In the second, the Huxleyan culture becomes a burlesque.
Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, and to assume that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, plain and simple stupidity. Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more... See more