How to avoid amusing yourself to death
Feb 24, 2017 · 2 min read
Back in 1985, Neil Postman cautioned about a world centered around TV culture in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman viewed advertisements as the perfect embodiment of our image-centric world. In his view, advertisements don’t really inform, but rather tell a seductive story to make consumers yearn for a product. Postman cited the fact that the average person was exposed to 1 million…
