Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman

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This is a book about what television does to shape national discourse. And it's really really really good. Yeh. It's the sort of book that stirs my brain all up with "Oh, exactly"s and "But what about"s and "Hmm, I wonder how his theories about this would be affected by the passage of time, seeing as this book was written in 1985"s.
The analysis is brilliant; the prognostications fall about 50/50 'my god, how eerie' vs 'enh, not so much'.
I really want to read more of his books, but not for a while.
And randomdreams was absolutely right to recommend this author to me.
(53/200)