Context Quote by Neil Postman Download Open image ““With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”” — Neil Postman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Context Media Television
“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.” — Steve Whigham Copy Share Image
“Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives” — David Niven Copy Share Image
“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.” — David Simon Copy Share Image
“The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real. And then, direct you, by using your… — VicDo Copy Share Image
“The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.” — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
“In lots of ways, television purveys and enables dreams, and most of these dreams involve some sort of transcendence of average daily life. The… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming themselves.” — Moonn Tzu Copy Share Image
“I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.” — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.” — Jean-Philippe Toussaint 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — 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
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The United States is a very important country to us in the international context. But on other hand, Angola is also important to the… — Joao Lourenco Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Captaining your country, going out at Wembley, captaining Arsenal to 10 trophies, playing your first game - they're all amazing things. But, phew, saving… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek. — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed into something… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
