I don't think anybody is ignoring the post, Jim.:-) I think Miller's logic peels a couple of layer's from Postman's arguments and extends "amusing ourselves to death" to "amusing ourselves to extinction".
"Amusing ourselves to death" is an inquiry into the most significant American cultural fact of the 20th century: the decline of the Age of Typography and the ascendancy of the Age of Television. This change has dramatically shifted the content and meaning of public discourse since anything must be recast in terms that are most suitable to television. To put it short: the medium is the message. Forms of media favour particular kinds of content and therefore are capable of even taking command of a culture, in other words: the media of communication available to a culture have a dominant influence on the formation of the culture's intellectual and social preoccupations.
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