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Trapped Inside the TV
What is it that controls what is accepted and rejected within any society? Who decides what is right, and what is wrong, and what is an illusion? In Amusing Ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show business, Neil Postman makes many arguments that the dominant medium of culture conversation, does not simply reflect a culture that is already in effect, but rather this medium reshapes culture into its ....
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.... enlightened age of Colonial America. This place we call home, America was founded by a group of intellectual men who brought over readings, and books from the Old World to start their New World with. In America literacy rates climbed, and everyone wanted to read. As time went on, reading was no longer considered an elitist activity but rather an activity that was spread throughout all of America. Every man was close to what [printed matter] talked about. Everyone could speak the sam ....
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