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Essay / Commentary on Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Over two decades ago, an author predicted a country that would slowly rot in front of hundreds of pixels that presented the appealing images that kept them coming back for more nonsense. Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death and caught the attention of the public (or at least those who chose to read his book (who were generally not the ones who needed to hear Postman's warning)) that television has become the central point in the evolution of our culture. information. And with so much influence on the many minds of the great country of the United States of America, Postman sadly informed us that we were being fed nothing but garbage. Toxic and radioactive waste which is transmitted from each contaminated generation to the next. With his in-depth analysis of the past and what was currently happening in the country, Postman wrote this cautionary novel. And with his unique writing style and many rhetorical devices, Postman created a novel that could possibly inform and protect people from a "Huxleyan" future and ending. ยป....