Latest posts tagged with #NeilPostman on Bluesky
"We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant." (Amusing Ourselves To Death)
✒ #NeilPostman, American cultural critic, was #BOTD 8 March 1931. #Culture #Media
“make content so abundantly available, context be damned, that we’ll be overwhelmed by “information glut” until what is truly meaningful is lost and we no longer care what we’ve lost as long as we’re being amused... Can such a book possibly have relevance to you and The World of 2006 and beyond?” - Page vii https://www.IndraJāla.com/brave-new-world/mock-mock-mockery
#NeilPostmanWasRight1985 #NeilPostman #AmusingOurselvesToDeath
#DeathByLOL #Year2006 #FWakeYear2006 #FWakeIndraJāla
“make content so abundantly available, context be damned, that we’ll be overwhelmed by “information glut” until what is truly...” - Page vii
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"Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man's symbolic activity advances. Instead of dealing with the things themselves, man is in a sense constantly conversing with himself. He has so enveloped himself in linguistic forms, in artistic images, in mythical symbols or religious rites that he cannot see or know anything except by the interposition of an artistic medium." ーErnst Cassirer
From "Amusing Ourselves to Death," by Neil Postman
#quote #neilpostman #marshallmcluhan #philosophy #mediatheory
#NeilPostman #FWakeKings #Political #FWakePolitical #FWakeCensorship "How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Year 1985. Nonfiction. Page 141.
#NeilPostman #FWakeKings
#Political #FWakePolitical #FWakeCensorship
"censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest."
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Year 1985. Nonfiction. Page 141.
#NeilPostman #NeilPostmanWasRight1985
#FBI #BigBrother
"Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody."
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985, page 111
"1999 year and Internet. Lol."
#LOL you think women #abuse topic is hilarious, funny + amusing. #NeilPostman
You are a "Chucklehead" Banal Agent attracted to #MAGA values and #MaximumPutinization
I've been an Internet professional since year 1991. I worked for #SAP in Germany, published author.
"There is a difference between rape & seduction, technology can rape a culture or be forced to seduce it." - Neil Postman. "The Conservative Outlook", Conscientious Objections : Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology & Education. 1988
#TechEthics
#NeilPostman #CrisisOfNotKnowingNeilPostman
“Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Year 1992.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly #NewYorkUniversity #NYU /\
I've analyzed Austin since 2007. I was leader of #Linux users groups in Austin. #SXSW - music scene, etc.
Fox News started October 7, 1996
Fox News is New York City
Donald Trump is New York City
#NeilPostman at #NYU is New York City
Rural Americans watch #FoxNews it is a #Cult of HDTV fiction.
People are not educated on the topics of #MarshallMcLuhan and #NeilPostman - media addictions and media behaviors.
We need to stop DESCRIBING Trump. We need to stop REACTING to Trump. We all need to get behind the mental health leadership of Dr. Bandy X Lee. #StopShitPosting
It isn't a dozen clowns in the #WhiteHouse
It is 300 million clowns in a nation who clown around on social media and have no self-awareness via #NeilPostman /\
Orwell temeva che i libri sarebbero stati banditi; Huxley, non che i libri fossero vietati, ma che non ci fosse più nessuno desideroso di leggerli.
#neilpostman #divertirsidamorire #booksky #libri
medium hot take: most garmez criticism as self-congratulatory bunk.. that we need *more* of #MediaLiteracy #NeilPostman
Today's Brookings report on genAI and education opens with a quote from a 1990 Neil Postman speech
The whole thing is worth a read:
www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/informing.html
#AI #NeilPostman
Highly recommend this article by @pettertornberg.com and @uitermark.bsky.social which traces how shifting modes of capital production shapes media which in turn shapes culture, and our minds. Best take I’ve read so far updating #NeilPostman for the 21st century.
"MAGA is based on feelings of self-victimhood, and the term Psyops implies that Trump voters are victims. They're not. "
Rupert Murdoch #FoxNews and Elon Musk #Twitter against a low-education rural MAGA culture. Study media ecology and face up to Blueksy. #NeilPostman
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Fighting fire with fire, fiction with fiction, adding more bullshit to #Kremlin bullshit is exactly what has gotten us 10 years + 6 months of non-stop Trump #memes & entertainment. Garbage amusement. #FoxNews bandwagon, following crud information.
Study #NeilPostman please.
September 10, 2025
#RFP22 #FWakeSports #FWakeSportsMentality
#NeilPostmanWasRight1985 #AmusingOurselvesZombies
#Sports #Trump #MAGA #FWakeFIFA #FWakeNFL
Donald Trump #TheApprentice #RealityTV entertainer knows what people in USA will not face. New York #Manhattan #NYU media ecology of #NFL sports #HDTV #NeilPostman
“Media theorist #NeilPostman warned that a “ #technopoly” arises when societies surrender judgment to #technological #imperatives - when #efficiency and #innovation become moral goods in themselves.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Neil Postman 1985 "For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
The fiction addiction that leads society... Putin + Surkov in Russia for the past 25 years, now the USA using #Surkovian methods. Fiction entertainment, Hollywood films, to lead mob mentality.
#NeilPostman Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
#NationalEmbarrassment nope. From everything on #Bluesky & #Reddit - Trump is #NationalEntertainment
Trump is #NeilPostman 1985 nightmare. Trump is #DavidFosterWallace nightmare. Trump is the horribly bad taste a nation has in memes. LOL addicts LMAO at Trump every day FOR OVER 10 YEARS 5 MONTHS!
Die Menschen in Schöne neue Welt leiden nicht daran, daß sie lachen, statt nachzudenken, sondern daran, daß sie nicht wissen, worüber sie lachen und warum sie aufgehört haben, nachzudenken.« 5/6
#NeilPostman
»Heute wissen wir, daß Sesam Straße die Kinder nur dann ermuntert, die Schule zu lieben, wenn es in der Schule zugeht wie in Sesam Straße.«
#NeilPostman
Wie soll Schule heute auf die TikTok-Kids reagieren?
- und ohne auf Widerspruch zu treffen.
An Huxley, und nicht an Orwell, sollten wir uns deshalb halten, wenn wir verstehen wollen, auf welche Weise das Fernsehen und andere Bildformen die Grundlage der freiheitlichen Demokratie, nämlich die Informationsfreiheit, bedrohen.« 3/3
#NeilPostman
»Kurz: So wie sich der Werbespot im Fernsehen, um seine psychologische Arbeit leisten zu können, aller authentischen Informationen über das Produkt entledigt, so entledigt sich – und zwar aus demselben Grund – die Image-Politik aller authentischen politischen Substanz.« #NeilPostman
»Vielleicht geht es zu weit, wenn man sagt, der »prominente« Politiker habe die politischen Parteien bedeutungslos gemacht. Doch zweifellos gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Aufstieg des prominenten Politikers und dem Niedergang der Parteien.« #NeilPostman
Daß die Verteidigung des nicht zu Verteidigenden als Amüsement betrieben werden könnte, kam ihm nicht in den Sinn. Er fürchtete im Politiker den Betrüger, nicht den Entertainer.« 3/3
#NeilPostman
»Wenn die Politik dem Showbusiness gleicht, dann kommt es nicht darauf an, überragende Leistungen, Klarheit und Redlichkeit anzustreben, sondern darauf, den Eindruck zu erwecken, man täte es – und das ist etwas ganz anderes.«
#NeilPostman
Die Nachrichten entlocken uns eine Vielfalt von Meinungen, mit denen wir nur eines tun können – sie wiederum als Stoff für weitere Nachrichten anbieten, mit denen wir ebenfalls nichts anfangen können. …« 4/4
#NeilPostman (1985)
»Vielleicht sind wir inzwischen tatsächlich an dem Punkt angelangt, wo nicht mehr die Programmatik, sondern die Kosmetik das Gebiet ist, auf dem sich der Politiker wirklich auskennen muß.«
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