Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, published 40 years ago, is still relevant today

Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death still turns up in op-eds, in podcasts, and in interviews.

Ezra Klein and Chris Hayes concur that the book is “the GOAT ” and “somewhat predicts Donald Trump in an explicit way”.

Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 2005 , with an introduction written by Neil Postman’s son, Andrew .

The author argued that each new communications technology transforms society that adopts it is an extremely useful way of thinking about the social media era.

Illing: In the 40 years since the book came out, we’ve learned that the more there is the more inflammatory the content vying for attention.

Postman detected early on the replacement of reason and facts with vibes.

Trump fans can run around, proclaiming, “Promises made, promises kept,” despite the fact that the president has kept almost none of the many extravagant campaign promises he made.

He gets away with it because he excels at creating the impression of action in action's absence.