
402 The Problem with... "Wheels, Nukes, and Amusing Ourselves to Death, Part 1"
The Problem with Reading
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
i think sam and i are going to be going backon to go over some of the major themes of amusing ourselves death. So nell postman, he was a communications a specialist sociologist guye, back in the a mid till late 19 hundreds. And his overall theme is that we as a society have shifted from the written word to the to the visual i what he calls a metaphor. The medium through which a culture communicates is much more far reaching than a simple statement. It is the way that dominates you view the world.
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