In the End

In the end of Neil Postman's book he makes a separation between thinking and laughter. He says that people no longer know exactly why they are laughing anymore. And he also states that people have stopped thinking, but they do not know why. This is the danger in the growth of television. This idea pretty much sums up the whole point of Amusing Ourselves to Death. It is the basic reason for the lower rates in typography. Postman's premise of the book lies within this topic. We will all be sucked into the entertaining world of meaningless T.V and laugh along with the world for no good reason. We will all lose our ability to think for ourselves and make insightful decisions.

Thank God for Speech

Last Friday was a rough day to get through. Using only illustration and charades to get my point across would never be my first choice. It was hard enough for me to keep my big mouth shut let alone have to be an artists and an actor too. At the end of the day I was trying to explain my idea for the yearbook and it was incredibly difficult to get my my teacher to understand what was on my mind using only charades and a whiteboard. This relates to the point that Postman makes when he says how we are dependant on the way we do things. We get so used to one thing that when we try and change it, we cant do it. Like when we went a whole day wihtout facebook, we are all so used to checing it so often so most of us struggled to keep away. While making funny gestures and drwaing terrible picutes, she never unserstood what I was trying to get across, though she did have asome interesting guesses. I had to wait till 2:30 and explain to her my plan with words. I thank God we all have speech to make our lives 100% easier and more clear.

Web Pages Take Over the Yellow pages

In Postmans discussion he talks about how humans become used to or adapt to the changes in technology. We seem not to realize we are taking to machines instead of real people. This agrees with his message in his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death." This is completely true. We find ourselves talking to anything as long as we get an instant response. Weather its a computer screen, an answering machine, a key board, or a cell phone, we don't care. Humans of our time was everything new. Faster, better, cooler, new. We always want the next best thing without realizing what we already have. This creates a problem for our human interaction skills. Soon people won't know how to carry on a conversation face to face, weather they want to or not.

Postman also brings up the topic of human appearance in both his book and his interview. In the interview he talks about how Human cloning is in our near future and can be used for anything from a person to talk to or an extra lung. In his book Postman talks about how looks makes a huge difference in all of our opinions. Now, when people watch a presidential candidate on the T.V they judge him on his looks along with his plans for the country. With the new clones people can use them to change anything about themselves they don't think is "Perfect". This shows people are caring more about the outside then inside. New technology and the new way we think is self centered and judgemental.