He had written two entirely contradictory things on adjoining pages. Things are disjointed. There are two competing points of view. If you think disjointed is the way to go, well then you will be on the side of the entertainment age, but you will not be thinking, and Postman, who is an educator, says you have broken the laws of logic and sequence and everything. If we raise up a generation that cannot think, then we have raised up a generation that can be manipulated by people who can think and do not even know it.
Television is a great manipulator.
We are aware of it in the market place. It manipulates you to buy things you have no need of whatsoever. It is crazy. We are spending our money on things we think we need. Television will do this in politics too.