Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to Dea... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
We have apparently advanced to the point where we have grasped the idea that a change in the forms, volume, speed and context of information means something, but we have not got any further.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
His questions can be asked about all technologies and media. What happens to us when we become infatuated with and then seduced by them? Do they free us or imprison us? Do they improve or degrade democracy? Do they make our leaders more accountable or less so? Our system more transparent or less so? Do they make us better citizens or better consume
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.