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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Revisiting the Prophetic Work of Neil Postman

  2020-10-19 in Public Discourse

Thirty-five years ago, New York University professor of communications Neil Postman predicted the political and social implosion we have witnessed in 2020. We must learn to dominate digital media technology, lest it dominate us. Otherwise, we may very well amuse ourselves, and our polis, to death.

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