In the last paragraph of "Amusing Ourselves To Death" Neil Postman refers to Aldous Huxley. Huxley was trying to talk about the same references as Postman. In Huxley’s book “Brave New World” he says that the public is stuck in between “education and disaster”. When Huxley says “they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about” was to show that society will laugh at anything even if it is not funny just for entertainment. Postman is showing in his last paragraph that he cannot stop our society from becoming like this. Huxley tried and so did Postman, he can only hope for the best.
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