Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Postman's opening move is to say that everyone worried about Orwell and nobody worried about Huxley — that the danger was never a boot on the face but an audience so entertained it stopped caring what was true.

He argues that a medium sets the terms of what can be said in it. Print favours argument, sequence and evidence; television favours images, brevity and pleasure. So news becomes entertainment, politics becomes advertising, religion becomes performance and education becomes Sesame Street. He wrote it in 1985 and it reads as though it were written about your phone.

One of the most prescient books of the last fifty years, and still the sharpest critique of media culture.

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