Neil Postman
We are not being conquered by a totalitarian regime that bans books, but by an entertainment-obsessed television culture that gives us so many distractions we no longer care to read them.
Every communication medium acts as an epistemology that implicitly dictates how a culture defines intelligence, truth, and reality.
While typographic culture fostered sustained, rational, and logical public discourse, television demands constant visual stimulation that inherently resists complex or continuous thought.
The telegraph and photograph initiated this cultural decline by elevating decontextualized, fragmented trivia over functional, cohesive information.