Amusing Our Selves to Death
I have just read Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman states that the age of typography has been replaced by the age of television. This has changed the way we look at the world and the way we think, which in turn has almost made us less intelligent. Postman speaks his opinions freely, and really gives the reader a new perspective on media, and the effect it has on society. To often we think nothing of what we see and read in the media, but after reading this book you see things a lot differently. Postman believes that the culture is shaped by how its media is conducted. In the age of typography, for example, politicians spoke of how people wrote. In today’s society the news is broadcasted in bits and pieces, and the unrelated topics are all thrown up and tied together with the phrase “Now and This”. Our culture, he states, now functions best when focused on tiny bits of unrelated material. We believe that things should come in unrelated bits, continuously, and with lots of flash. To
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Sesame Street, Death Postman, Christ Col, Teaching Children, postman believes, , reading book, age typography, watching television, children learn, sesame street,
Approximate Word count = 674
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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