Three Powerful Quotes by Neil Postman

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Neil Postman has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us…
• People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
• A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
• My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain…
• When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.
• It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
• For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is…
• But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our…

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