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Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Nonfiction book. Year 1985. Page 27

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"Therefore, I will not burden myself with arguing the possibility, for example, that oral people are less developed intellectually, in some Piagetian sense, than writing people, or that “television” people are less developed intellectually than either. My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content — in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling. I will say once again that I am no relativist in this matter, and that I believe the epistemology created by television not only is inferior to a print-based epistemology but is dangerous and absurdist." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Nonfiction book. Year 1985. Page 27.
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