HOW ENTERTAINMENT MANGLED PUBLIC DISCOURSE
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✍️ The article discusses Neil Postman's book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' and its relevance in today's digital age. Postman argued that television is ruining our thought processes and that the expectation of entertainment has a corrupting influence.
👉 Television is ruining our thought processes and making us more superficial 👉 The expectation of entertainment has a corrupting influence 👉 Social media has democratized public discourse but also led to a shallower and more superficial form of communication 👉 The rise of AI is poised to drag us into the next phase of communication, in which machines will produce content as well as transmit it
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