Amusing Ourselves To Death Postman Summary

In a world where we focus on the sensational, the entertainment and the novelty, we can often miss the meaning of things and become superficial. The text of Postman presents a reality of our contemporary world, especially about America , namely the negative influences of television on public discourse and the fact that words have a significant power over humans as could influence them to think or make choices that others control. The argument that the author is making in his paper has a great importance because is meant to make us aware on the fact that things are degenerate on the point that we are, indeed, “amusing ourselves to death”. As Postman affirms, television started to affect our daily life beside the time spent in front of TV, because serious forms of
Also, the problem of religion, like we are informed in the text, we can observe and in our daily life that some people have lost their faith because the sanctity of this domain is becoming more of a business, or at least that is what the media want us to believe. What I want to add is that if we lose our faith it not represents that we are not letting ourselves being manipulated anymore, but on the contrary. An exemplary observation is made by Strate , continuing the work of Postman in his book Amazing Ourselves to Death : “we should engage in concerted evaluation of what we are doing and how we go about doing it, to carefully weigh the costs and benefits of our technologies, to consider what are the appropriate uses of our media, and what uses might be inappropriate, and to proceed with