Until the Vietnam War school shootings were rare and scattered but after commercial teevee brought the carnage into every American living room something changed.When anyone over 45 stops to ask themselves how TF did we get to a point where a cancelled TV game show host, who is wildly unfit for the office of dog catcher, much less a SECOND term as president got elected, Neil Postman tried to warn us decades ago.
— Darick (@darickr.bsky.social) November 20, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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So how did we get here and how did a career criminal like DonOld Trump reach his under-educated, gullible audience? People exposed as children to teevee are more likely to vote for populist politicians.
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve out highest goals. [Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business]College graduates make up 43% of the electorate and 55% voted for Vice President Harris while 56% of voters without degrees voted for Trump because Generation X is a disease.
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