What did Neil Postman mean by: When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision. Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA Copy
+ The written word endures, the spoken word disappears Author, August 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Neil Postman, Communication, Preservation, Time, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Argument, Debate, Definition, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Comfort, Familiarity, Preference, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Connection, Identity, Legacy, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Acceptance, Authority, Membership, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Education, Reason, Skepticism, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Inevitability, Technology, Unpredictability, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother? Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Efficiency, Purpose, Relevance, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Read explanation Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland