Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The subtitle reads Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
This book was written in the 1980’s before social media and the internet but it is still relevant. The book talks about how our culture has moved from communicating ideas through words and print to conveying ideas visually through television. Postman says that through this form of communication, the visual median, we have lost something, for one thing this median always seek to entertain above educating the audience. We have moved into the “Age of Show Business.” All that is offer on television from “Sesame Street” to documentaries and even the news itself is a form of entertain. His arguments are compelling and worth reading even though the material is dated.
