“The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining,”
In 1985, Postman, a friend and disciple of McLuhan’s, published Amusing Ourselves to Death. He argued that television had hijacked Americans’ attention and turned politics into cheap entertainment.
Seriously mfs built the damn pyramids before we had television. Mfs reversed the flow of rivers before we had television. It costs us $900,000 to replace a single sidewalk slab now, because people aren’t paying attention to boring politics
We need a return of boring television and more generally, imposed boredom
Seriously mfs built the damn pyramids before we had television. Mfs reversed the flow of rivers before we had television. It costs us $900,000 to replace a single sidewalk slab now, because people aren’t paying attention to boring politics