Neil Postman

《娛樂至死》由尼爾·波茲曼所著，他指出，現實社會的一切公眾話語日漸以娛樂的方式出現，並成為一種文化精神。我們的政治、宗教、新聞、體育、教育和商業都心甘情願的成為娛樂的附庸，其結果是我們成了一個娛樂至死的物種。 …

Neil Postman is one of the most level-headed analysts of education, media, and technology, and in this book he spells out the increasing dependence upon technology, numerical quantification, and misappropriation of "Scientism" to all human affairs. No simple technophobe, Postman argues insightfully and writes with a …

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. …