"Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman" - Book PReview - Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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The Decline of the Potency of Education
The name we may properly give to an education without prerequisites, perplexity and exposition is entertainment. The consequences of this reorientation are to be observed not only in the decline of the potency of the classroom but paradoxically in the refashioning of the classroom into a place where both teaching and learning are intended to be vastly amusing activities. What Huxley teaches is that in the age of the advanced technology spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. Big Brother does not watch us by his his choice we watch him by ours. There's no need for wardens or gates or ministries of truth when
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