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One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of crap.
— Neil Postman
An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.
— Neil Postman
The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.
— Neil Postman
The written word endures, the spoken word disappears
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The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)
— Neil Postman
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In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.
— Neil Postman
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
— Neil Postman
We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?
— Neil Postman
There is no denying that the technicalization of terms and problems is a serious form of information control.
— Neil Postman
We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.
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There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.
— Neil Postman
What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.
— Neil Postman
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
— Neil Postman
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
— Neil Postman
Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.
— Neil Postman
Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.
— Neil Postman
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.
— Neil Postman
The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
— Neil Postman
We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.
— Neil Postman
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
— Neil Postman
As Thoreau implied, telegraphy made relevance irrelevant.
— Neil Postman
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
— Neil Postman
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
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America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.
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What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies
— Neil Postman
It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power
— Neil Postman
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
— Neil Postman
Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.
— Neil Postman
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.
— Neil Postman
Popular literature now depends more than ever on the wishes of the audience, not the creativity of the artist.
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Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything.
— Neil Postman
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.
— Neil Postman
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.
— Neil Postman
Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.
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I mean only to call attention to the fact that there is a certain measure of arbitrariness in the forms that truth-telling may take.
— Neil Postman
The new focus on the image undermined traditional definitions of information, of news, and, to a large extent, of reality itself.
— Neil Postman
With the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events.
— Neil Postman
In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
— Neil Postman
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".
— Neil Postman
As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.
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All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.
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The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.
— Neil Postman
