Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

I was reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, which is an old book, but incredibly, it's still relevant, like shockingly relevant.

So, first, I'll start with a classic, which is Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. The Goat. The Goat. In this discourse, I think it still totally holds up. The first chapter, which is... Somewhat predicts Donald Trump.

And this is the way Neil Postman, who wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, put it.

I have to recommend Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.

I mean, his book is a kind of indictment of TV.

In Neil Postman's great book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, where he says that the thing television is going to do to politics is make us believe politics should always be entertaining.

We see a lot more discussion of the good, of virtues, of ... Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, roughly will eventually happen is that we will think everything must be entertainment.

And this is the way Neil Postman, who wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, put it. His book is a kind of indictment of TV, but he actually loved junk TV. He thought it was very entertaining.

I have to recommend Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman is at least incredibly clear and accessible, and it's a very good way into media ecology as a way of seeing and thinking about the world.

I've been rereading some Neil Postman for partially a project I'm doing, but partially because I think he's so unbelievably brilliant and prescient. The place to begin there is Amusing Ourselves to Death. And if you just haven't read it, it is not just a classic, but it is much more relevant to our world today than almost anything being written today.

Just a straightforward argument in Neil Postman's great book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, where he says that the thing television is going to do to politics is make us believe politics should always be entertaining. And that's going to make politics a space dominated by entertainers.

I give that book to everybody all the time. It blew my mind.

I'd be so curious what he has to say about this now.

There's a there's a great book called by neil postman called amusing ourselves to death and it came out in 1984 and it's him kind of railing against they put music on the news it's a show now this that's that's the beginning of the end for him they put music on the news and you go yeah this is its entertainment I really enjoyed that

There's great book by Neil Postman I'm using ourselves to death that talks a lot about how the mediums affect the message the eventual of the printing press affected Not only the way information was spread but the way we think about information the way we process information and then you suddenly have televsion come out and out the way in which we communicate and the way we process information is Very different than the way we used to with the printing press

There's great book by Neil Postman I'm using ourselves to death that talks a lot about how the mediums affect the message the eventual of the printing press affected Not only the way information was spread but the way we think about information the way we process information and then you suddenly have televsion come out and out the way in which we communicate and the way we process information is Very different than the way we used to with the printing press

There's a great book called amusing ourselves to death and it talks about how the medium Completely shapes everything where we used to be a society that reads and then we became a society that watches television Now we're becoming a society that watches podcasts

I think of a book from maybe 30 years ago by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death which wasn't about binge watching because it didn't exist but it was about an engagement with media or entertainment but the point is if watching TV is not the most intellectually and physiologically and socially stimulating thing that one can do which we could probably agree on and if it becomes easier and easier and easier to do more of this thing then that's probably not so good but it may also be that we're in the early days and people kind of feel a reaction to it or against it and start to adapt

I think of a book from maybe 30 years ago by Neil Postman called Amusing Ourselves to Death, which wasn't about binge watching because it didn't exist, but it was about an engagement with media or entertainment.

In the mid 1980s, there was a book by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death.

In the mid-1980s, there was a book by Neil Postman called Amusing Ourselves to Death.

And it basically was an extension of the Orwellian fear that we were being distracted by bread and circuses, that the individual was getting weaker and weaker and less likely to think for him or herself.

Is that these mediums change you the fundamental way they affect society Is that while you're looking at the content, you're actually absorbing the rules and structure and ways of communicating and relating of the medium

And it is that set of underlying rules like that way the medium acts upon you. It's much much more important

there's also Neil Postman's amusing ourselves to death these are two eye opening books that will give you a sense of why you should consume as little news as possible and how manipulative it is and how harmful it is.

there's also Neil Postman's amusing ourselves to death these are two eye opening books that will give you a sense of why you should consume as little news as possible and how manipulative it is and how harmful it is

By the way there are plenty of books at Suckerberg ought to read these days in that vein, including amusing ourselves to death, the storm before the storm, the brass check, the filter bubble and trust me online.

there's also Neil postman's amusing ourselves to death these are two eye-opening books that will give you a sense of why you should consume uh as little news as possible and how manipulative it is and how harmful it is