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Amusing ourselves to death - The Equity

Summary by theequity.ca
The title of this piece is borrowed from the influential 1985 book by NYU professor Neil Postman, who wrote about the dangers of a society guzzling easy-to-digest info-tainment on television as opposed to the more difficult task of conventional reading and writing.  He details the corrosiveness of a constant stream of smash-cut 30 second segments interspersed with advertisements to the process of rational thought. It’s impossible to form a coher…
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theequity.ca broke the news in Shawville, Canada on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
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