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According to Cicero the goal of education was to free the student from the “tyranny of the present,” give them a greater historical context. But television aims to accomodate us to the present.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
The End of News - The Atlantic
The End of News — The Atlantic
By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren’t very favorable.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
For one thing, as I have said, the printed word had a monopoly on both attention and intellect, there being no other means, besides the oral tradition, to have access to public knowledge. Public figures were known largely by their written words, for example, not by their looks or even their oratory.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
CHAPTER EIGHT · THE HOME FRONT Public and private
Mary Beard • SPQR
am arguing that a television-based epistemology pollutes public communication and its surrounding