PAThwAy TwO
PresEnTing POsTmAn
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling:
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World….”
Neil Postman foresaw and witnessed to technology 40 years before our era of entanglement with the screen. His analysis, and our reality, are intertwined in a Gordian knot of devilish digital difficulty.
The prophet, media theorist, and critic of technology had much to say if we should choose to listen…
Postman’s Work
This pathway is anthological in its structure.
Every page contains passages to either meditate upon and analyze or to unpack alongside my commentary and experience. Within are more than 100 quotes from Postman’s three greatest works. The collection forms a unified body in the way it traces the arc of Postman’s developing thoughts, feelings, and solutions about the entertainment age.
From 1985 to 1995, Postman changed. He grew. More discomforted by the shape of technology but more confident in his hopes for the future.
Walking this pathway with Postman is an invitation to experience a new way of seeing, a new way of embodying realities we know but are encouraged to forget...
Experience POsTmAn
PAtHWAY TwO
Hope
Preface
What is a Pathway…
Author’s Note
The Second Pathway…
Amusing Ourselves to Death | Introduction
Amusing Ourselves to Death | 8 ~ 44
Technopoly| Hinge
Technopoly | 45 ~ 66
The End of Education| Conclusion
The End of Education | 67 ~ 80
Postscript
A Loving Resistance Fighter
The Loving Resistance
Précis
Beyond Hope
Beyond Postman
Look inside…
