Amusing Ourselves to Death

“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'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”

“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”

“But then that that thing Neil Postman had he wrote this brilliant book in like 1984, right, called Amusing Ourselves to Death. And it was about Ronald Reagan getting elected. And it was basically he said we've gone from reading newspapers to watching the news on TV.”

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

“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.”

“It's what Neil Postman was talking about in Amusing Ourselves to Death.”

“oh by neil postman”

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

“And this is where I think Aldous Huxley's book, Brave New World, or, you know, Postman's book, Amusing Ourselves to Death is really about”

“The second is amusing ourselves to death. I know you talk about it all the time, but you know, I know Postman, Neil Postman.”

“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”

“Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is this amazing book. And one of the most, the opening pages of that book are some of the most memorable of any book.”

“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”

“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”

“there's a great book called amusing ourselves to death and it talks about how the medium completely shapes everything where we used to be a society that reads and then we became a society that watches television”

“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”

“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”

“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”

“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”

“The reality is, is that in today's society, before our show, I was talking to you about this book, I finally read, I knew the thesis but I actually hadn't read it, amusing ourselves to death, I think that's what a fully automated AI life will look like.”

“And in Amusing Ourselves to Death, he wrote about how uh inferior the television-based epistemology of politics and culture was to uh a sort of political epistemology based on print.”

“like I was reading Neil Postman amusing ourselves to death over the weekend and he was sort of lamenting the rise of Ronald Reagan in the age of TV and looking back he was like, "Well, William Howard Taft could never have been elected in the age of TV cuz he was so like obscenely obese."”

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

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

“It reminds me of that Neil Postman book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Huxley's version of the future was more accurate than Orwell's.”

“The famous one book that made an enormous impact on me when I first read it was Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to death about the move of America from a textual print culture to a TV culture.”

“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”

“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”

“I mean I thought if you've ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman he's written in 1984 and he talks about like how television and you could just substitute television for social media”

“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”

“I mean, and and this is what Neil Postman warned about in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, a theme that was picked up by David Foster Wallace in Infinite Jest. You know, beginning with television and now the internet and digital media in all its various forms, we are entertaining ourselves to death.”

“I was reading Amusing Ourselves to death by Neil Postman which is an old book but incredibly it's still relevant like shockingly relevant”

“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”