Ugh...Postman talks alot...

In the last paragraph of Postman's book he talks about and just that we need to be reading and learning but we also need to understand it.  We need to understand what is happening in politics, education and disasters.  He talks about Brave New World and how everyone thought that the people had stop thinking and just laughed.  However the people were always thinking they just did not understand the problem so they laughed.  We need to know what is happening in the world and understand the issues. We need to stop watching the world, through the TV, or other ways and join the world.

I LOVE TALKING!

Friday's activity of not talking was very challenging.  I was not able to ask questions in class and understand what my friends were trying to communicate to me.  Trying to come up with pictures to discribe my questions or comments.
Although watching my friends acting out or drawing their statements was hiliarious.  The way Ashley got my attention was coughing super loud until I looked at her.  Also some teachers did not know that the AP Language classes could not.  Trying to explain to them, while not seeming crazy, that it was an assignment.
This assignment was very difficult to perform. I never realized how much I talk during a school day, or anyday.  Although I completed the assignment, I do not ever what to do it again.

Are We Really Amusing Ourselves To Death??

During Postman's speech at Calvin College he states "that each day we should stop and hear a good song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and is possible speak a few reasonable words."  In Postman's book he states, "Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjunts of show business...the result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death."  If we as one people did stop to hear a good song, read a good poem, see a fine pictured, and speak a few reasonable words, we could slow down the process of amusing ourselbes to death.
Postman also quotes a professor at MIT, "In the next millenium, we will find that we talk as much or more the machines, then we do humans."  In Postman's book he quotes the second commandment, "thou shalt no make unto thee any graven image, any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water beneath the earth." By talking to more to machines then to humans we are creating a new god.  That machines will be put before humans and God himself.  by creating machines into the people's new god, we increase the process of amusing ourselves to death.