İletişim
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Cevvelaİletişim
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman · Ayrıntı Yayınları · 1985
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A masterpiece of communication theory showing how television and image culture (today, social media) reduce serious political, religious and educational discourse to mere “entertainment” formats, and how they destroy society’s capacity to think through a Huxleyan pleasure.
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“You do not need pain to control people; drowning them in entertainment is far more effective.”
“The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.”
“When a society sacrifices its cultural heritage to comedy shows, it has signed its own death warrant.”
“It will not be what we hate that ruins us, but what we love.”
“When image culture takes the place of reason, logic gives way to nothing but applause.”
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Postman confronts us with the most insidious of dystopias. Orwell feared that books would be banned; Postman feared a culture in which no one would want to read a book. He proves how that “funny and entertaining” world behind the screens numbs the mind. When Cevvela helps people who were left half-finished because no one believed in them to stand up again, the first condition is to take those numbing screens out of their hands. You feel disgusted with yourself when you realize that the news bulletins you watch and the short videos you scroll through do not inform you; they only spare you the effort of thinking and dull your mind. A society that falls victim to entertainment puts on its own shackles.