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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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From his visions and insights into what he sees as the decline of the rational and self-capable human, Postman builds his essential argument, which he uses to build other arguments. The argument is this; that a particular medium, like television, can only espouse parallel ideas. This means that by giving up your rights in favor of entertainment and amusement, you are only allowing yourself to be influenced by one thing (media) and thus can only entertain ideas derived from that...
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From his visions and insights into what he sees as the decline of the rational and self-capable human, Postman builds his essential argument, which he uses to build other arguments. The argument is this; that a particular medium, like television, can only espouse parallel ideas. This means that by giving up your rights in favor of entertainment and amusement, you are only allowing yourself to be influenced by one thing (media) and thus can only entertain ideas derived from that...
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