More by Neil Postman
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Eyeglasses refuted the belief that anatomy is destiny by putting forward the idea that our bodies as well as our minds are improvable.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
The principal strength of the telegraph was its capacity to move information, not collect it, explain it or analyze it.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
What I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence.
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
For even the simplest act of naming a thing is an act of thinking—of comparing one thing with others, selecting certain features in common, ignoring what is different, and making an imaginary category.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
All Neil Postman quotes →