Topic > Commentary on Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

More than twenty years ago, an author predicted a country that was slowly rotting before hundreds of pixels featuring attractive images that kept them coming back for more drivel. Neil Postman wrote Amusing Himself to Death and brought to the attention of the public (or at least those who chose to read his book (who were commonly not the people who needed to hear Postman's warning)) that the Television has become central to our culture. information. And with so much influence on the many minds of the vast country of the United States of America, Postman sadly informed us that they were only giving us garbage. Poisonous and radioactive waste, which is passed down from each contaminated generation to the next. With his in-depth analysis of the past and what was currently happening in the country, Postman wrote this cautionary novel. And with his unique writing style and numerous rhetorical devices, Postman has created a novel that could inform and protect people from a "Huxleyian" future and ending"....