Quotes by Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of b — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business