A Brave New Audience
Over time, technology has become increasingly more advanced. This is unfortunate for mankind because the more advanced, the more serious television gets, the worse it is for its viewers. It constantly feeds people information with which they take in without even knowing its perils. What they think is an excellent source of information, is actually a dangerous medium through which millions of Americans reduce their intelligence. According to Neil Postman, it is simply just a detriment of content because it focuses more on images, rather than content. In Postman's essay, "The Huxleyan Warning", he exhorts readers that Huxley's prophecies are beginning to be realized. He claims that society will enslave themselves through their love for their own tyranny; the technologies that disable their abilities to think. This technology comes through the form of a television screen. These prophecies, which were first introduced to us by Aldous Huxley, are visible in the movie The Truman Show. "Truman", is a normal human being, unknowingly being watched by billions of viewers ever since his birth. Viewers are stuck to their television sets watching his every move. What is unfortunate is that Huxley's beliefs are beginni
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Approximate Word count = 1029
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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