Amused to Death: How Culture Became Entertainment, and Are We Losing Ourselves?

In 1985, Neil Postman, a media scholar and social thinker, published his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death." At the heart of the book is a disturbing claim: in modern society, entertainment culture has taken over every conceivable field – media, education, politics, religion – and transformed citizens from critical spectators into consumers of entertainment. Postman compares two dystopian images (images of the end of the world): on the one hand, …