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Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death

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    “My hobby horse is the death of literacy and its implications for our civic lives. Postman is using TV in the 80s but social media only accelerates his arguments. I still think about his points about the importance of literary culture for political formation in the lead up to the civil war.”

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