The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“How does a culture change when new technologies are introduced to it? And is it always desirable for a culture to accommodate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate… — Neil Postman Copy Share
