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A review by jonjas
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
5.0
Audiobook
Absolutely brilliant- almost passed on it because it’s from 1985 and I just figured it might not be as relevant, given internet and all. How wrong I was.
In short, the idea is that television and the form it’s taken has made us dumb, distracted, the rats pushing the pleasure button over and over again. If that doesn’t sound too revelatory or thorough, trust me, Postman does a brilliant job of exploring all the implications of this- how long form discourse has been lost, nuanced arguments are no more, and it’s fascinating to see 50+ years of that playing out in real time. Absolute idiots are at the helm, raised on television and simplistic binary beliefs, and no one has the patience to listen to the nuanced ways in which they’re Nazis. Capitalism, entertainment, immediate wants, are everything to our “culture”. Thanks Jeff!
Absolutely brilliant- almost passed on it because it’s from 1985 and I just figured it might not be as relevant, given internet and all. How wrong I was.
In short, the idea is that television and the form it’s taken has made us dumb, distracted, the rats pushing the pleasure button over and over again. If that doesn’t sound too revelatory or thorough, trust me, Postman does a brilliant job of exploring all the implications of this- how long form discourse has been lost, nuanced arguments are no more, and it’s fascinating to see 50+ years of that playing out in real time. Absolute idiots are at the helm, raised on television and simplistic binary beliefs, and no one has the patience to listen to the nuanced ways in which they’re Nazis. Capitalism, entertainment, immediate wants, are everything to our “culture”. Thanks Jeff!