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Comparison Of Neil Postmen's Amusing Ourselves To Death

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Neil Postmen’s book “Amusing Ourselves to death” opens in the forward by comparing George Orwell's dystopian society to Aldous Huxley’s. Both end with people en-slaved to technology but in oppose to Orwell’s view, where big brother controls the public, Huxley believes the public will willingly choose to follow the media and be controlled by there own lack of choices. Postman believes that culture will be based on how media is conducted rather then perceived. Today the news is broadcasted in small chunks, and the unrelated topics are all thrown around and tied together to change the magnitude of a news story. Our culture now functions best when focused on tiny bits of unrelated material training us to have smaller attention spans and to not

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