Seth

“Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Although the general character of print-intelligence would be known to anyone who would be reading this book, you may arrive at a reasonably detailed definition of it by simply considering what is demanded of you as you read this book. You are required, first of all, to remain more or less immobile for a fairly long time. If you cannot do this (with this or any other book), our culture may label you as anything from hyperkinetic to undisciplined; in any case, as suffering from some sort of intellectual deficiency.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“the concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into—what else?—another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business