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

3.0

The main premises of the book are still valid: (1) the nature of the message depends on the medium it is delivered in; (2) currently drifting towards a Huxleyan world, not an Orwellian one. Or maybe we're already there, it's hard to distinguish. The arguments used come across as cherry picking and some have been debunked since its publication in 1985. And I don't know, can't learning be alternatingly fun and strenuous? Not for Postman it seems.