I agree with Neil Postman, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, where he states that ''... author assumed a connection between forms of human communication and the quality of a culture''. I agree with this because every form of communication can portray what someone wants to say. Some ways of communication do have a better way of showing the significance of what we are trying to say, but each form of communication brings the same point.
Amusing Ourselves to Death is a book written by Neil Postman, made the world aware of public discourse in the age of show business. As an examples of what technology has done to today’s youth he used the books Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s 1984. Orwell’s was afraid that we would become a captive culture who would ban books.On the other hand Huxely was afraid that: ''the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance and what we love will ruin us.''(Foreword)
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He's proposing to see what Galileo remarked ''that the language of nature is written in mathematics, as a metaphor'' and how our languages are our media, our media are our metaphors and the most important thing our metaphors create the content of our culture. (p.15)
In conclusion Postman speaks his opinions freely, and really gives the reader a new perspective on media, and how the media from nowadays has negative effects on society.
He speaks about television about how television changed everything in our culture, teaching and politics. An example about how politics has changed are the debates. Now the debates last an hour, they have two minutes to speak each other, but in the past the debates last many hours of response and counter-argument. Another exemple about how media changed our culture is teaching. Now the children think that we should learn by watching television, or searching on the
Amusing Ourselves to Death is a book written by Neil Postman, made the world aware of public discourse in the age of show business. As an examples of what technology has done to today’s youth he used the books Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s 1984. Orwell’s was afraid that we would become a captive culture who would ban books.On the other hand Huxely was afraid that: ''the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance and what we love will ruin us.''(Foreword)
Postman …show more content…
He's proposing to see what Galileo remarked ''that the language of nature is written in mathematics, as a metaphor'' and how our languages are our media, our media are our metaphors and the most important thing our metaphors create the content of our culture. (p.15)
In conclusion Postman speaks his opinions freely, and really gives the reader a new perspective on media, and how the media from nowadays has negative effects on society.
He speaks about television about how television changed everything in our culture, teaching and politics. An example about how politics has changed are the debates. Now the debates last an hour, they have two minutes to speak each other, but in the past the debates last many hours of response and counter-argument. Another exemple about how media changed our culture is teaching. Now the children think that we should learn by watching television, or searching on the