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Marcus Reynolds<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shoq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>shoq</span></a></span> </p><p>From the Foreword. The book appeared 1986. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NeilPostman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilPostman</span></a> lived 1931 – 2003</p>
RoundSparrow 🐦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RationalizedInsanity</span></a></span> "At least I can rest assured I wouldn't mess up so hard that my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatbot</span></a> starts calling itself <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MechaHitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MechaHitler</span></a> and acting like a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> Reddit incel."</p><p>No, you confuse fiction with no=fiction, you replied to age 55 RoundSparrow with bullshit fiction, you believe lies and falsehoods and wont't reply to authentic science of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarlSagan</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JosephCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JosephCampbell</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeilPostman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilPostman</span></a> about your meme addiction. You are a Mastodon machine lover, anti human.</p>
RoundSparrow 🐦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWake20250625" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWake20250625</span></a> June 25, 2025 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FUBAR1806C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FUBAR1806C</span></a> </p><p>"Trump Tweets, World Laughs!!!!!" is the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrontPageOfReddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontPageOfReddit</span></a> TOP posting currently.</p><p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1lkfwvv/trump_tweets_world_laughs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebac</span><span class="invisible">ks/comments/1lkfwvv/trump_tweets_world_laughs/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeAmused" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeAmused</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeSurkovianChess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeSurkovianChess</span></a> </p><p>That is the cycle that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeilPostman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilPostman</span></a> described as Hell in his 1985 book <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmusingOurselvesToDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmusingOurselvesToDeath</span></a> </p><p>/\ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfiniteTrumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfiniteTrumpism</span></a> /\ IT NEVER ENDS!!!!</p>
RoundSparrow 🐦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtSomePointThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtSomePointThis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeTopicMeets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeTopicMeets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeAtSomePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeAtSomePoint</span></a> ++</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtSomePointThisIsOnDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtSomePointThisIsOnDemocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtSomePointThisSituationIsOnWeThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtSomePointThisSituationIsOnWeThePeople</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtSomePointOurMediaEcologyCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtSomePointOurMediaEcologyCrisis</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtSomePointThisIsOnWeThePeopleFor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtSomePointThisIsOnWeThePeopleFor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeilPostman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilPostman</span></a> ignored.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtSomePointThisIsOurAddictionToFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtSomePointThisIsOurAddictionToFail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FailAttraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FailAttraction</span></a> /\</p>
RoundSparrow 🐦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeCommentA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeCommentA</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PromotingDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PromotingDenial</span></a> ++ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DenialAbounds4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DenialAbounds4</span></a> </p><p>Social media users who adore social media, popular style of social media, do not study <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeilPostman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilPostman</span></a> 1985. The venue of the Apple iPhone screen size meme is amusing. Anything is amusing. Kremlin information warfare exploits this. Timing.</p>

I need to circle back and re-read his "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology".

I read it when it came out in 1992, but frankly don't remember much from it.

Edit: Free #PDF on archive.org! 🙂

ia601802.us.archive.org/27/ite

This is from the Wikipedia entry:

"Postman considers technopoly to be the most recent of three kinds of cultures distinguished by shifts in their attitude towards technology – tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. Each, he says, is produced by the emergence of new technologies that "compete with old ones…mostly for dominance of their worldviews".

On my agenda today:
- set up my #RaspberryPi5 / install #Linux (Ubuntu MATE most likely)
- permanently delete my inactive 3 bird app accounts
- draft a new post for #TheFutureIsFederated about data sovereignty and my plans for the next 4 years
- finish reading #NeilPostman’s superb “Building a Bridge to the 18th century”
- chin up, be defiant and resist

ICYMI: this is the latest #blog I wrote on my personal site: “The rebellion will be federated” elenarossini.com/2024/11/the-r

Elena Rossini · The rebellion will be federated — Elena Rossini
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I just finished reading this amazing book, ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Neil Postman that compares both Orwell’s 1984 with Huxley’s Brave New World. His conclusion from the beginning was that Huxley was correct in his prediction of the future and that television is the driving force to make people to be more and more uneducated. This short book was written in 1985 and yet, still stands the test of time. #books #neilpostman #huxley #orwell #bookstodon @bookstodon

In this 1993 talk, Neil Postman highlights a deeply concerning aspect of modern media. In Postman's words:

"For most people, the world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible. There's almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. [...] There is no consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests."

youtube.com/watch?v=QqxgCoHv_a

Now, Naomi Klein gives us a description of the bizarre mirror world that's emerged since, of a "growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while identifying real problems, opportunistically exploits them to advance a hateful and divisive agenda." democracynow.org/2023/9/14/nao