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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

Neil Postman
People, Culture, News
Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.18, Penguin

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Neil Postman
Culture, Significant, Claims
Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.16, Penguin

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

Neil Postman
Knowing, Culture, Television

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Neil Postman
Technology, Doe, Culture

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