A review by joegisondi
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

2.0

I really wanted something deeper on why we do these things, why we chose to be entertained versus thinking. It didn’t really give me that but just made the case that everything is now entertainment and that TV is the center of it. I don’t agree with a lot of his commandments anymore and think TV has gotten better and being much more philosophical and able to shine a light on our darker aspects of society. It was dreadfully boring at times and it bothered me that it took so long to read. Very repetitive in spots and could have been read in a shorter essay format.