Lessons from Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
14 min readSep 11, 2018
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Finished: 08/2018
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“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think”
Short Summary
In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman shows how the most popular media of a time in history shapes the discourse of the world. Written in 1985, it focuses on how television has negatively affected the level of public…