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Why Television Kills Rationality | Amusing Ourselves To Death (Neil Postman)

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The Huxley and Dystopia

TV immunizes ourselves to this very, very strange thing that happens because that is what it does with the television commercials. That discontinuity that jump that perspective change is very bizarre and I assume most people have met someone crazy in their life who kind of does something like this. All of this plays into this idea of that TV is more about amusement and entertainment, which in a take into its logical extremes will get us into the Huxley and type idea of the mindlessness.

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