Amusing Ourselves to Death



Amusing Ourselves to Death

Summary

This is the summary based on the first two chapters, namely “The Medium is the Metaphor” and “Media as Epistemology” respectively, of educator Neil Postman's scintillating book Amusing to Death: Public Discourse in the age of Show Business which was written in the year 1985. He was inspired into written this through the Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which depicts public is oppressed by their obsession with amusement; more clearly reflecting on the contemporary world, in contrast to George Orwell's 1984. It is considered as one of the most important texts in the Media ...