Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age Of Show Business Quotes

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.