#184Pages

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

3 days ago

#184Pages This book is only 184 pages.

Save the USA. Please Speak Up. Quote this book.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing...

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

7 months ago

#StainOnHumanity #StainOnSocialMedia #SocialMediaSociety
#FWakeStainOn

#SocialMediaDidNot consumers did not stop entertainment, amusement. Be serious. Neil Postman's 1985 book is only #184Pages long. Donald Trump is not entertainment. A mind virus as described by Elon Musk. #MassPsychosisAbounds

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

9 months ago

Heart - What About Love? YouTube video by HeartVEVO

#MaximumEngagement

#TalkingPeopleOutOf #TalkingPeopleOut
#FWakeTalkingPeople

Talking People out of Donald Trump is not trivial or easy

#SocialMediaCouldStandUp and teach #184Pages book by Neil Postman from year 1985.

Talking People out of Fiction is not trivial or easy. #ScienceFiction Religions

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

9 months ago

#DiaryOfRoundSparrow Monday May 19, 2025

I live in USA, and since Twitter-thinking took over the nation. #TwitterThinkMania - early November 2012 - it has been non-stop decline. Everything Neil Postman explained in his 1985 book, #184Pages long, ...

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

1 year ago

"He was the one who argued, 40 years ago, that entertainment was a kind of sewage, leaking into our serious discourse and poisoning it. That TV in particular — these were the days before social media — was training everyone to expect amusement, one-liners and feel-good moments from what should be real discussions of actual ideas." #184Pages

"He was the one who argued, 40 years ago, that entertainment was a kind of sewage, leaking into our serious discourse and poisoning it. That TV in particular — these were the days before social media — was training everyone to expect amusement, one-liners and feel-good moments from what s" #184Pages

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

1 year ago

Our politics are unhinged. He saw it coming 40 years ago. Forty years before social media, before 'information silos,' before Trump, media critic Neil Postman predicted it all.

"Our politics are unhinged. He saw it coming 40 years ago." #184Pages

"Who got it right? 'It' being: everything. Our current mess. The low information, disinformation, gullibility and hysteria that are breaking out like measles during Election 2024."

By Jim Beckerman #FWakeMarch27 2024 #March27

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

1 year ago

People in 2025 on their Apple iPhone blame "the media" / MSM, the same people can't find a well known author, Neil Postman, from 1985 "Amusing Ourselves to Death" which is a book about "the mainstream media", apply it to SOCIAL MEDIA, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad

#184Pages book people can't face, avoid