Omusement Rules

A follow-up on my reference to Neil Postman. Yes, he was a lefty and put Reagan with a Bozo nose on the original edition of "Amusing Ourselves To Death". If he was a righty he would have put Clinton on the cover instead. But the thesis is about the medium and remains uncorrected:

Amusing Ourselves to Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "He also repeatedly states that the eighteenth century, being the Age of Reason, was the pinnacle for rational argument. Only in the printed word, he states, could complicated truths be rationally conveyed. Postman gives a striking example: The first fifteen U.S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words. However, the reverse is true today. The names of presidents or even famous preachers, lawyers, and scientists call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, of their words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully-chosen soundbites."

Can you remember anything O Duce has said other than perhaps "The Police acted stupidly"? But he's tall, looks nice and has a mesmerizingly deep smoker's voice...

TURN. OFF. THE. T. V. NOW. USE. YOUR. BRAIN. INSTEAD.