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

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Should be mandatory reading in all educational institutions. I say this despite not agreeing with everything that it says. The context is certainly America and by extrapolation all western democracies, but much of the arguments translate to the global scenario. Although the image presented of Kissinger, a war criminal, as some sort of intellectual hero was jarring. I was surprised by the dry wit, if I didn't know better I would have concluded that Postman was British. In short, it makes one think and that is the first step to any sort of awakening.  

For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.