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Amusing
Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
When you compare today's sound bite dis-information age with the way public discourse used
to be conducted... debating of matters of concern using logic and substance... you
ascertain that something has gone terribly wrong. Postman puts much of the blame on
television and it's constant need to be entertaining, handing out information in spoonful
quantities. In this book, Postman addresses this problem in several areas, including
politics, education, religion, and journalism.
Technopoly:
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Tools are useful, and serve the Agrarian well at his daily tasks. But as tools
become more complex, they can begin to take on a different air about them... their
function in many ways actually controlling their human user. Postman calls this
'technopoly'... a state where machines are sovereign over social institutions and many
other aspects of human life. Has this happened yet in our society? Agrarians
would answer 'yes', and reading this book will show you why.
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