Entertaining Yourself to Death by Neil Postman In Entertaining Yourself to Death, Neil Postman warns us of the dangers of how television conditions us to tolerate the brevity of visual entertainment. His message is that with every new technological means introduced there is a significant trade-off. His main example was the medium of television. TV is structured to provide information to the viewer on a platform that is fast and entertaining at the same time. This discourages any viewer subjectivity, allowing television to shape and dictate [politics, education, religion and journalism] the essence of our discourse. Except for a few pages of “enlightenment,” the entire book was a conglomerate resource of evidence to support his hypothesis. Important facts underlined generalizations to present logical and agreeable points of view. (e.g. "Television is our culture's primary way of knowing itself. Therefore... the way television stages the world becomes the model for how the world should properly be staged..." (Postman 92) In other words, the way life is portrayed on television is how we expect it to be.) And in most cases one would find some truth in Postman's statements (e.g. "No medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what it is transmitting"). the dangers are.") (Postman161) Postman's final critical point was not simply an epiphany, but was a message to his reader and a solution to educators: "the point I'm trying to make is that only through profound and unshakable awareness of the structure and effects of information, through a demystification of the media according to Bibbs 2, there is some hope of achieving some degree of control over television, or the computer, or any other medium." (Postman 161 ) I agree.Until we start researching… half of the paper… I look forward to becoming a visual learner.By reading on my own, I assume I am a more logical thinker, making my pragmatic E As for social learning, well... I've always been a social person. In conclusion, I disagree with Mr. Postman in believing that our public discourse through the medium of television is making us less social in the sense of conversation and epistemology. I believe it is 20th century man's way of communicating through his most [for lack of a better term] effective means of communication, just as it was our predecessors' way of communicating through theirs (i.e. print or debate). We are just following suit [or perhaps man's natural course] to have fun with our talkBibliographyMcWhorter, Kathleen. Study Skills and Critical Thinking for College Students Postman, Neil. Having fun until you die