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.
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