Amusing ourselves to death (Chapters 1 and 2)

Amusing ourselves to death (Chapters 1 and 2)

Postman's book is a work that aims to explore complicated ideas and present them to the readers. These ideas include the basic understanding of how media is influencing the public discourse in modern America which he presents in detail after he has thoroughly discussed and explained the background suppositions. The first two chapters are basically a building up of the actual thesis of the book and therefore, include the background and historical analysis.

The book opens with a foreword which tells us about the two different visions ...