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

1.0

Written by yet another privileged white guy who, while claiming to know much about the hardships of women and minorities and also claiming to not be undermining the mental capacities of people who engage in "new media," actually proves to not know or care about women and minorities and how media has shaped public discourse for them, and does in fact undermine people who use new media. This book is elitist and while it does being up a few good points about the slippery slope of wanting pleasure and amusement most of the time, had many more points which serve to prove that the writer is a technophobe, even for the late twentieth century.