cdm reviewed Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a …
Describes how different media affects how we think and act
5 stars
Content warning Summary
- It was a good book
- Describes how different media affects how we think and act
- E.g. when books were the only media, people talked and thought like written word and had long attention spans (the e.q. listened for 8 hours of political discussion)
- Also describes that when the Telegraph came up, suddenly unimportant international news were in the local newspapers and people got flooded with too much information
- Neils says that in todays world basically the horror imagination from "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley) became reality and this reality is that we are getting flooded with too much information which means that we can't concentrate or focus anymore on that what is really important