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!
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".
Indeed...
"Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems." - Neil Postman
https://mdpaths.com/rrr/books/amusing_ourselves_to_death/index.html
If all the secrets of adulthood, including sex, illness and death, are opened to children; cynicism, apathy or arrogance replace curiosity for them, short-circuiting education and moral development.
-- Neil Postman (The Disappearance of Childhood)
#Wisdom #Quotes #NeilPostman #Apathy #Arrogance #Cynicism #Education #Television
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"Most of us, most of the time, are unaware of how language does its work." —Neil Postman, Technopoly
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” https://elenarossini.com/2024/11/the-rebellion-will-be-federated/
New on #TheRealists
"5 stories about Big Tech to improve your digital literacy skills" https://newsletter.therealists.org/5-stories-about-big-tech-to-increase-your-media-literacy-skills/
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."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqxgCoHv_aE&t=972
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." https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/14/naomi_klein_doppelganger
@shoq yep, an ever-so critical book to read... #neilpostman