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'Amusing Ourselves to Death' is actually the name of a great book by Neil Postman. I'm a little bothered by the author of that infographic stealing it for his
by smutticus 13y ago
'Amusing Ourselves to Death' is actually the name of a great book by Neil Postman. I'm a little bothered by the author of that infographic stealing it for his title. It's a great book and if you like thinking about this kind of thing you should check it out.
- hhariri 13y agoHe's not only used it for the title but the actual quotes are from the Prolog of the book.
- terhechte 13y agoYeah, I've read the book many a years ago. Another good read in this vein is Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" [1]: "they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods — films, radio programmes, magazines, etc. — that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity. Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
- dmoo 13y agoAlso used by Roger Waters for inspiration for his album Amused to Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amused_to_Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amused_to_Death
- basch 13y agoThe author of the comic went out of his way to contact the estate, ask for permission, and removed the comic when permission was denied. http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/cartoon-blog/amusing-ourselves-to-death/ http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/cartoon-blog/amusing-ours... http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse... And that's on top of the fact that his comic has probably sold an incalculable number of copies of the book, due to people discovering Neil Postman.