Neil Postman @PostmanQuote
Daily quotes from the writing of media theorist Neil Postman, author of Teaching as Subversive Activity, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and many other books. Joined July 2011-
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Language isn't only a vehicle of thought; it is, as Wittgenstein said, also the driver. We go where it leads, see the world as it permits.
Each of us is, to borrow a phrase from Wendell Johnson, "our own most enchanted listener."
Our genius lies in our capacity to make meaning through the creation of narratives that give point to our labors.
Science isn't a "subject" but a moral imperative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, & humility to learning.
Technology enacts social change. To maintain that technology is neutral is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”
Being confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences looks upon language bare, w/o help of either beauty or community.
Learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.
When people are distracted by trivia & cultural life is redefined as perpetual entertainments, then culture-death is a clear possibility.
To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles?
Orwell feared we'd be deprived of information. Huxley feared we'd get so much information we'd be reduced to passivity and egoism.
As Huxley saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least-well informed people in the Western world.
There is considerable merit in McLuhan’s advice to avoid questions of good & bad regarding media. But that view has never been mine.
David Riesman once said of print, it is the gunpowder of the mind.
How did they get so smart? Their intellectual powers were developed by a medium that fostered abstract thought.
All those who created the electric world—from telegraphy to the Internet—were educated exclusively by the written & printed word:
And, is there any connection between our obsession w/ technology & our capacity for moral growth? Are we even asking this question?
It is part of human nature to hate & kill, it is part of human nature to love & protect. What part will be nurtured? What part suppressed?
Media ecology exists to further our insights into how we are doing morally in the journey we are taking. If you disagree, you are wrong.
Students educated in the history, social effects and psych biases of tech may grow into adults who use tech rather than used by it.
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