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- Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.
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| Author | Neil Postman |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Publication date | December 27, 2005 |
| Print length | 207 pages |
| Customer Reviews | ★★★★★ / 1,979 ratings |
| Great on Kindle | ✅ |
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What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman." -CNN
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.
"A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one." –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
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One of his mentors was Marshall MacLuhan, who had a short but funny cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTSmbMm
But McLuhan was a supposed media guru who got a lot about TV totally wrong. He called TV a "cool" medium that made viewers engage with it because it didn't provide a lot of sensory data, as opposed to books were he called "hot" media that didn't demand high involvement. Postman rightly reversed it. TV does much more of the work for us, and that's one reason why people gravitate to it over books ('tho that's not a good thing).
And as Postman got even back in 1985, TV doesn't really conduce well to deep thinking or slow explication of points because those have to compete with its ability to do what we like more: loud noises, quick images, pretty colors, etc. Postman pointed out how long the candidates had to make their points in the Lincoln- Douglas debates, and when you consider how long even Kennedy and Nixon got in their famous 1960 debate, and compare it with the short sound bytes that candidates must lob nowadays, you can see how prescient Postman was in predicting the triumph of pleasing and entertaining media content over deep and thoughtful stuff.
tl;dr: if you haven't gotten this, get it now! I don't know much about 4K TVs but I can join the others who call this a slick deal. ;-)
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One of his mentors was Marshall MacLuhan, who had a short but funny cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTSmbMm
But McLuhan was a supposed media guru who got a lot about TV totally wrong. He called TV a "cool" medium that made viewers engage with it because it didn't provide a lot of sensory data, as opposed to books were he called "hot" media that didn't demand high involvement. Postman rightly reversed it. TV does much more of the work for us, and that's one reason why people gravitate to it over books ('tho that's not a good thing).
And as Postman got even back in 1985, TV doesn't really conduce well to deep thinking or slow explication of points because those have to compete with its ability to do what we like more: loud noises, quick images, pretty colors, etc. Postman pointed out how long the candidates had to make their points in the Lincoln- Douglas debates, and when you consider how long even Kennedy and Nixon got in their famous 1960 debate, and compare it with the short sound bytes that candidates must lob nowadays, you can see how prescient Postman was in predicting the triumph of pleasing and entertaining media content over deep and thoughtful stuff.
tl;dr: if you haven't gotten this, get it now! I don't know much about 4K TVs but I can join the others who call this a slick deal. ;-)
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right."
One of his mentors was Marshall MacLuhan, who had a short but funny cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTSmbMm
But McLuhan was a supposed media guru who got a lot about TV totally wrong. He called TV a "cool" medium that made viewers engage with it because it didn't provide a lot of sensory data, as opposed to books were he called "hot" media that didn't demand high involvement. Postman rightly reversed it. TV does much more of the work for us, and that's one reason why people gravitate to it over books ('tho that's not a good thing).
And as Postman got even back in 1985, TV doesn't really conduce well to deep thinking or slow explication of points because those have to compete with its ability to do what we like more: loud noises, quick images, pretty colors, etc. Postman pointed out how long the candidates had to make their points in the Lincoln- Douglas debates, and when you consider how long even Kennedy and Nixon got in their famous 1960 debate, and compare it with the short sound bytes that candidates must lob nowadays, you can see how prescient Postman was in predicting the triumph of pleasing and entertaining media content over deep and thoughtful stuff.
tl;dr: if you haven't gotten this, get it now! I don't know much about 4K TVs but I can join the others who call this a slick deal. ;-)
Marshall MacLuhan, that's a name that I haven't heard of in a long time. It takes me back to my sophomore year of high school when our speech and debate teacher was enamored with him, as a 15 year old I was not. Maybe I need to read up on him 49 years later.
David has some really great ones, too.....About Face, David Gilmour, etc.