Ep. 268: Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (Part One)

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. On Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) with guest Brian Hirt. How does the form in which we receive media affect how we think? Education theorist Postman (building on Marshall McLuhan) claimed that television has eroded our capacity to reason and given us the expectation that everything in the world must entertain. Is this a viable piece of social construction theory? How does the critique apply to the Internet age? The post Ep. 268: Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.