Back To Year 1985, July 3, 1985

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Back To Year 1985
July 3, 1985

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. It has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide.

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Back to March 1967 “The Medium is the Massage": “Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” — Marshall McLuhan (lemm.ee)

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Back to March 1967 “The Medium is the Massage": “Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” — Marshall McLuhan

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Also, the bar’s owner likes to hang Nazi memorabilia on the walls, and bans criticism of Nazis.”

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

And saying the word cisgender.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Nope. X was quite explicitly turned into a nazi bar, in a top-down fashion.