Category#misc

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

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I found this excerpt online after hearing @tristanharris read it on Rogan’s podcast. Simply chilling. We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But we...