People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies… — Neil Postman · Skopia

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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Amusing Ourselves to Death · 1984

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Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Viking Penguin/Methuen Publishing, 1985, foreword.

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