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

5.0

This book was written in 1985 and while it constitutes a very thorough assessment about the changes television was making in America, there are still some lessons to be found over thirty years later. Neil Postman explores how television as a medium perverted our primary means of communication, and subsequently impacted non-television media as well. I would love to see his assessment about social media and how it feeds into the same thought processes that led him to caution all of us against the ills of television.
For anyone trying to pinpoint where the world started to get quite so weird, I think this book is a great start!