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
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles… — 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
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
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — 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
