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

3.0

A lot of this went over my head. Guy goes hard on how society has from an oral/listening culture to a alphabet/reading culture and now to a passive TV culture. And that’s bad. While erudite, the author sounds a bit like a grumpy old man. In the age of supercomputers that can fit up our asses, this guy’s doom and gloom sounds like an old-timey stump speaker going on about the dangers of magazines. Postman’s point is valid as I honestly hoped this book would be more amusing. Yawnorrhea.