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Postman's Thesis is Powerful, Provocative, and Important!, 12. Mai 2000
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Taschenbuch)
For anyone interested in exploring the meaning of the rapid eclipse of ordinary reality and how it is being changed and altered by the rise of the electronic media, this book is very important. From the introduction and Postman's tongue-in-cheek comments about the novel 1984, his observations regarding the cogency of British author Aldous Huxley's technotronic nightmare vision in "Brave New World" through out the book right up to its conclusion, Postman binds your interest by illustrating and documenting how the rise of the elecrtonic media and its manipulation of what you see in way of news and entertainment has inexorably changed the meanings,purposes and ultimate uses of politics, economics, and technology. As Huxley himslef warned, totalitarian societies need not arise through violent overthrow of the democracies using brutality, cruelty and violence, but can also occur whenever the citizenry is successfully deluded into apathy by petty diversions and entertainments, as well. Postman shows how the electronic media's presentation of facts and fcition in an entertaining fashion diverts us, channeling our attention, money, and energies in ways that make us much more susceptible to social, political and economic manipulation and eventual subjugation. The book is a bit difficult to read at points, but well worth a sustained effort and a little concentration. For any citizen concerned about how the media is rapidly changing the rules of political, social, and economic engagement, and what it portends for the future, this book is a must read. And follow it up with Postman's book "Technopoly", which picks up where this book leaves off.
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Man's Mistaken Identity, 5. Januar 2000
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Taschenbuch)
Neil Postman's book 'Amusing Ourselves To Death' is an excellent look at the world today (more accurately in 1985). He explains that there is no need to fear George Orwell's vision of 1984, but rather to fear an older title of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. One which takes away freedom, the latter giving you all the freedom you want. Funny and witty, Postman gives a top rate analysis of the current media (second to McLuhan). I dont see this book as a prediction of any sort, but rather observing the direction the media of print and television is headed. Television has been given so much authority that it does not matter whats on it, so much that its on. Postman declares that television has the power to do away with books by the sheer hypnotic power that television has over print. And this, by being in a trance and reclining in our sofas to and forgetting about the world (and what the GOVT is doing) is just as fatal as the government getting involved in every aspect of our lives. This book is a nice read with some profoundness to it which will change your perspective on 1984, television and the way you live.
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Superb book, but slightly outdated, 4. Januar 2000
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Taschenbuch)
This is simply a superb book, a real "classic" in its field. The author's logic and his data are absolutely overwhelming. The only possible flaw is that it is based on data 2 decades old. For a current update on the data and research in this field I would also strongly recommend Grossman & DeGaetano's "Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill," which has the added benefit of addressing the impact of the new violent video games, and incorporating some interesting military data.
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