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

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I recently bought an old book published in 1985 called “Amusing ourselves to Death – Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.” The author, Neil Postman, compared and contrasted two dystopian futures in which totalitarian governments seize the individual rights of their citizens in different ways.  He distinguishes the George “Orwellian” vision of the […]