Huxleyan warning neil postman biography

          "In America, Orwell's prophecies are of small relevance, but Huxley's are well under way toward being realized.!

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        2. We were keeping our eye on When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves.
        3. "In America, Orwell's prophecies are of small relevance, but Huxley's are well under way toward being realized.
        4. From Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
        5. Amusing Ourselves to Death is not a long book — pages of text.

          6. Amusing Ourselves to Death

          "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." (Page 4)

          The medium isn't the message, it's the metaphor

          Postman sets out to develop the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, famous for his assertion that "the medium is the message." Namely, as McLuhan had argued, "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."

          Postman goes further: the medium isn't just the message but rather it is the metaphor.

          That is, the media we use have a way of organising and transforming the ways we think to begin with.

          "Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought,