September 10, 2025 - Time Magazine
"The 40-Year-Old Book That Predicted Our Dystopian Politics"
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"His name was Neil Postman, an NYU professor, and in 1985 he wrote his masterpiece called Amusing Ourselves to Death" #NeilPostman #FWakeNeilPostman
"From Howard Stern to Donald Trump as democracy amuses itself to death"
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At this point, June 29, 2025 - it is rear-view mirror. People won't even share Bluesky or Mastodon without blocking human persons they disagree with.
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“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
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"Our politics are unhinged. He saw it coming 40 years ago." by Jim Beckerman, NorthJersey . com - "Who got it right?" - March 30, 2024
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#NeilPostmanWasRight1985 "Neil Postman got it correct in 1985"
#EvenBetterSeveralGods "Even Better, Several Gods"
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1985 book by professor Neil Postman on "Amusing Ourselves" via social media machines / HDTV devices
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If only it were year 1985, the HDTV television medium would be the problem, but today it is #AppleiPhoneClownSociety year 18. #RussianMindFuck
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“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Ind”
― Neil Postman, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
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"What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
"when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result" "what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
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#FWakeIgnorance
“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
#ComplexWorldAfterAll
Of course, when "weaponized" psychological manipulation is at play... #NeilPostmanWasRight you run into Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves To Death"... and #cults #FWakeCults
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"Neil Postman talk in LA 1993/7/28 (VPRI-0131)"
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Speech to the German Informatics Society in Stuttgart
October 11, 1990
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"Professions, in other words, build forbidding walls of technical gobbledegook over which the prying and alien eye cannot see."
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"Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything and is, therefore, too important to be left entirely in the hands of Bill Gates." #FWakeY1998 #FWakeYear1998
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January 21, 2025 #RedditFrontPage #FUBAR1801
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Lyrics: "Bigoted parents now decide what teacher's teach"
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#FWakeWrongLevel "Wrong Level"
No, WRONG. #BlameFuckingRussia #SurkovAndPutin let alone Musk in 2024!
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"2024 was a bad year for basic decency in America. You can thank Trump for that"
December 29, 2024
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December 30, 2024
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"Building a bridge to the 18th century" by #NeilPostman #FWakeY1999 #FWakeYear1999
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December 24, 2024 #ChristmasEve2024 morning
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"But an image? One never says a picture is true or false. It either captures your attention or it doesn’t." - #AndrewPostman 2017
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#SurkovMatrix "Surkov Matrix"
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#Childhood and history - how children were integrated into adult society and the high mortality rate.
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