Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

When Galileo remarked that the language of nature is written in mathematics, he meant it only as a metaphor.

the concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.

In saying this, I am not making a case for epistemological relativism.

We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.