“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience… The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.”
This quote about the dangers of television came from famed author and media theorist Neil Postman, in his book “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” Which is great and all, but we kind of prefer the quote “Haters Are Just Pre Creators Who Need The Seed Of Greatness” from Jaden Smith‘s Twitter, and we’re too busy amusing ourselves to death with Smith’s latest casting news to care about our TV sets damaging our brains.
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