“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is
redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public
conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people
become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a
nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”
―
Neil Postman,
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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we should be wary that a faux “movement” may be manufactured on the backs of real movements that have sought to upend that political and ...
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Americans “must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”...
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