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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."
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Neil Postman — Amusing Ourselves to Death
Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
Author
Neil Postman
Date
1985
Credibility & evidentiary value

Prescient media criticism on how entertainment formats reshape thought. Predates the feed but reads as a blueprint for it.

Citation · Chicago

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Viking, 1985).

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