Different conversations will be had, different conclusions reached, and different value systems espoused in a society dominated by print as opposed to a society dominated by television. The subtitle of PostmanвЂ™s book is вЂњPublic Discourse in the Age of Show Business.вЂќ His thesis is simple: that what we talk about in the public square and how we talk about it is fundamentally shaped by the prevailing medium of communication. But whereas Isaiah explained the suffering and resurrection of the Savior, Postman explains how the man who headlined Wrestlemania 23 got access to the nuclear codes. There is a sense of everything falling into place. Reading this book in a world where Donald Trump is the president is a kind of tragicomic inversion of what the first Christians must have felt when they turned back to the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. One of these books is Neil PostmanвЂ™s 1985 work Amusing Ourselves to Death. They leave the reader with the unsettling sense that the world in which we all now live once existed only in the prognostications of a far-sighted, now-deceased author.

There are even a few books that have this quality to them. Predictions this forensically precise leave the impression that a DeLorean traveling at 88 miles per hour must have played some part in their provenance. He spoke these words, if you can believe it, in 1891, at the age of 16.

Nor even in the 1910s, when the great powers of Europe were sleepwalking into the First World War. Except that Churchill didnвЂ™t make this prediction in the 1930s. It was an astonishingly prescient and confident prediction to make in the middle of the 1930s, given that virtually nobody else in the corridors of power at Westminster believed that war was imminent. T hus spoke Winston Churchill to his friend Sir Muirland Evans, prophesying his own starring role in the defense of the West against Adolf Hitler.

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