8:42 "It's pointless to be against technology [...] in America everyone is so much in love with technology, it's not just television-but word processors and computers and electric toothbrushes and SST's and the whole ensemble of electronics... that you need some people to say, even if in a footnote, _'I'm not a luddite, but now let me direct your attention to some of the negative consequences of all of this.'"_
Ashikmlakonja, I deeply appreciate you for posting this. I'm rereading Conscientious Objections now, and it's looking better and better. The book allows Postman to roam "free-range", to explore some of his favorite topics in a series of concentrated essays, rather than a sustaining, multi-chapter work. So one can read a given essay in a single chapter, and capture the entire concept.
19:47 "Most stupidity happens with the larynx and the tongue and the teeth and the mouth-that is to say it is a form of talking. And so I suggest in this piece that teachers should become experts in stupid talking. Many of your audience would say that most teachers are already experts in stupid talking, but I mean experts in identifying why people fail to accomplish their purposes when they open their mouths to start to speak." Slavoj Zizek jocularly echoes Postman here with his vision of the ultimate bureaucratic tool-a translation machine in which one inputs their frustrated vulgarities in common parlance and has them translated into an intelligently pointed concern/critique.
That opening question from Heffner is a grammatical mess. "Where do you begin in terms of the way you feel, because I remember the last time we met you said, 'Hey, that's the way i feel on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, but on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays'...Where today? What bugs you the most about these?" Yikes!
@@aaron___6014 Did you view and listen to the programs on AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH? These comments were very pertinent to Postman's views. The days were quoted and had an important point in these earlier programs.
One of the geniuses of 20th century!!!!
8:42 "It's pointless to be against technology [...] in America everyone is so much in love with technology, it's not just television-but word processors and computers and electric toothbrushes and SST's and the whole ensemble of electronics... that you need some people to say, even if in a footnote, _'I'm not a luddite, but now let me direct your attention to some of the negative consequences of all of this.'"_
Ashikmlakonja, I deeply appreciate you for posting this. I'm rereading Conscientious Objections now, and it's looking better and better. The book allows Postman to roam "free-range", to explore some of his favorite topics in a series of concentrated essays, rather than a sustaining, multi-chapter work. So one can read a given essay in a single chapter, and capture the entire concept.
19:47 "Most stupidity happens with the larynx and the tongue and the teeth and the mouth-that is to say it is a form of talking. And so I suggest in this piece that teachers should become experts in stupid talking. Many of your audience would say that most teachers are already experts in stupid talking, but I mean experts in identifying why people fail to accomplish their purposes when they open their mouths to start to speak."
Slavoj Zizek jocularly echoes Postman here with his vision of the ultimate bureaucratic tool-a translation machine in which one inputs their frustrated vulgarities in common parlance and has them translated into an intelligently pointed concern/critique.
Annoying frequency in background. Love Neil Postman.
It disappears after 4 minutes
What dissapeared?@weltschmerski
Thanks for sharing buddy!
That opening question from Heffner is a grammatical mess. "Where do you begin in terms of the way you feel, because I remember the last time we met you said, 'Hey, that's the way i feel on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, but on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays'...Where today? What bugs you the most about these?" Yikes!
avantisprod You've never made a mess of your speech?
@@aaron___6014 Did you view and listen to the programs on AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH? These comments were very pertinent to Postman's views. The days were quoted and had an important point in these earlier programs.
I like how no one has a clue what he is talking about.
Including the interviewer.