A Belief System for the 21st Century

Surface level close up on an abstract engineering blueprint drawing of blue striped gear mechanism, with shiny metallic gears in the foreground

Authors:

Neil Postman

Quotations

“Amusing ourselves to death”

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

1985 from the book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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