During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the foundation of a mass education system and intellectual freedom was born. America was the envy of the world. Neil Postman’s essay “Future Shlock”, brings attention to the downfall of intelligence in the 1980’s during a time when America's president was a former actor. He believed displacement of serious discourse came about due to the popularity of show business. According to Postman; politics, history, education, and religion became intermingled heavily with entertainment. This led to television being one of the main sources of information which in turn caused the degrade in actual research.
Postman had conducted a survey to test the knowledge on the Iranian Hostage Crisis. This particular crisis was shown on television for more than a year. The result of this test showed that American’s knew of the event but no further details containing simple knowledge such as; where Iran was or what language Iranians spoke. Those that did have some basic knowledge learned from the newspaper. He came to the conclusion that television attributes to American’s being among the most ill-informed people in the world. Television shows based off true events were likely to have fictional scenes for the sake of entertaining such as …show more content…
The tribe became infatuated with this new device that served different purposes but also intrigued their chief with the music that was produced when blowing into the bottle. People who had this bottle didn’t want to give it up and those who didn’t have it envied their fellow tribal members. A tribe that was once in concord became split and nearly destroyed. This showed the effects of technology and how it can even change a whole culture which was happening to
Postman had conducted a survey to test the knowledge on the Iranian Hostage Crisis. This particular crisis was shown on television for more than a year. The result of this test showed that American’s knew of the event but no further details containing simple knowledge such as; where Iran was or what language Iranians spoke. Those that did have some basic knowledge learned from the newspaper. He came to the conclusion that television attributes to American’s being among the most ill-informed people in the world. Television shows based off true events were likely to have fictional scenes for the sake of entertaining such as …show more content…
The tribe became infatuated with this new device that served different purposes but also intrigued their chief with the music that was produced when blowing into the bottle. People who had this bottle didn’t want to give it up and those who didn’t have it envied their fellow tribal members. A tribe that was once in concord became split and nearly destroyed. This showed the effects of technology and how it can even change a whole culture which was happening to