Amusing Ourselves to Death

“i'm in the middle of another book um i think it's called a muse to death oh by neil postman”

“there was a there's a book called amusing ourselves to death which is it's by neil postman and it's like one of the best books about media i've ever read it came out in 1989”

“there's a great book that I read that Neil Brennan told me about what's it called amusing ourselves to death is what that it's called”

“there's a great book that I read that Neil Brennan told me about uh what's it called amusing ourselves to death”

“i mean there's an amazing book that i recommend anyone listening to this read called amusing ourselves to death by neil postman which he wrote in 1985 before computers before social media before any of this”

“There's a great uh it's not a controversy, it's it's a Neil Postman argument that he makes in Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is always one of my books I recommend to people.”

“and this is the way Neil Postman who wrote amusing ourselves to death put it I mean his book is kind of indictment of TV”

“just a straightforward argument in in Neil postman's great book amusing ourselves to death where he says that the thing television is going to do to politics is make us believe politics should always be entertaining”

“you go back in your readal Postman amusing ourselves to death”

“if you want to be depressed about our ability to succumb to that I think of a book from maybe 30 Years Ago by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death”

“in the mid 1980s there was a book by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death and it basically was an extension of the orwellian fear”

“I think of a book from maybe 30 Years Ago by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death, which wasn't about binge watching because it didn't exist”

“have you read amusing ourselves to death yeah I mean yeah I think it's it's the reason the Daily Show is is great is because it is designed to be entertainment. It's an embracing entertainment. But his point that basically television is not a medium by which you can communicate intelligent thought is really as spot-on as it can get.”

“oh by neil postman”

“If you want to be depressed about our ability to succumb to that, I think of a book from maybe 30 years ago by Neil Postman called Amusing Ourselves to Death, which wasn't about binge watching because it didn't exist”

“well I I have to I have to recommend Neil Postman a amusing ourselves to death I know that's a book that's been mentioned here before”

“like look I mean Neil postman's amusing ourselves to death always worth reading in this you know space I'd be so curious what he has to say about this now”

“most recently I've been rereading a book that I loved as an undergraduate Neil postman's amusing ourselves to death because I've been kind of rethinking what the lessons from that are to the modern world of social media”

“yeah that quote about amusing ourselves to death or welfare feared a world where we would ban books and censor information”

“what's his name again neil postman i'm putting that in my book list um amusing ourselves today yes discourse uh in the age of show business from 1985”

“this is a book that i was reading that neil brennan recommended i think it's called entertaining yourself to death something like that uh but essentially it was a book that was written in the 1980s when we find the the book and there's a book that was written you know what it is um using ourselves that's it amusing”

“there's a great book called uh by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death and it came out in 1984”

“Neil Postman wrote about this in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death.”

“it's from the book have you read amusing ourselves death by neil postman”

“I mean there's an amazing book that I recommend anyone listening to this read called amusing ourselves to death by Neil postman which he wrote in 1985 before computers before social media before any of this he predicts all of it perfectly without even knowing the faintest hint of what was going to happen”

“always our final question what are three books You'd recommend to the audience so so first I'll start with a classic which is Neil postman's amusing ourselves to death the the goat The Goat in this in this discourse I think it still totally holds up”

“have you read neil postman at all have you read like amusing ourselves to death it was a social critic technology critic um and wrote a lot about sort of technological determinism”

“uming ourselves yeah”

“If you want to be depressed about our ability to succumb to that, I think of a book from maybe thirty years ago by Neil Postman called Amusing Ourselves to Death, which wasn't about binge-watching because it didn't exist, but it was about an engagement with media or entertainment.”