Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, (Paperback)

from adulau

Starting by reading the introduction, I thought that will be again one of those prophetic books about media and television flying over the top and forgetting about the inner problem of visual media usage. Not at all, the book is incredible and really dig into the issue of our society moving "away...

from ZacAbeel

If Guns Germs and Steel explains where we as humans have been and how we got here, then Amusing Ourselves to Death makes a great argument as to where we as humans are going. Author Neil Postman begins by comparing George Orwell's 1984 and Alex Huxley's Brave New World. Both books made bold predic...

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Written in the mid 80's 'Amusing Our Selves to Death' remains a damning indictment of what a runaway entertainment mindset has done to American culture. Things are not better, if anything, things are worse. Celebrity culture has taken over the web and the websites of most major newspapers. What t...

from ImperfectCJ

I intended to---and still might---write a really meaty review, but I'm finding I need to mull over the ideas in this book a bit more. The short version is: I love Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman's hypothesis is that in predicting how the population would be controlled, Huxley, not Orwell, had...

from jstamp26

Neil Postman has put forth the idea that television has usurped the role of print as the dominant medium/metaphor of our culture. This change has had profound consequences in almost every aspect of our lives with the result that we are unable to be a serious people. For centuries, the people of w...