Amusing Ourselves To Death
Neil PostmanHuxley said we are the Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth, the time to tell it if we believed we did, or an audience gullible enough to accept it.
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Charles Mumford, in his book Technics and Civilization, described the way the invention of the clock has changed our thinking. First we became time-keepers, then we became time-savers, now we are time-servers. In a world made up of seconds and minutes, Nature is superseded. So perhaps the ticking of the clock has done more to undermine God's supreme authority.
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In the same way as a clock recreates time as a mathematical sequence, writing recreates the mind as a tablet on which experience is written. And, in the same way, the telegraph recreates news as a commodity.
The invention of eyeglasses in the Twelfth Century changed the idea that anatomy was destiny. The body as well as the mind could be improved.
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False idea that new technology is just an improved version of the old. A car is far more than a fast horse; an electric light much more than a better candle.
'Thinking' doesn't work for tv the way it does with a book. You can't stop the show for "let me think about that" or "where did that information get sourced from?"
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