Disaster and Education

Postman makes the distinction that the real problem today is not that people have started laughing instead of thinking, but that they do not know or understand what they are laughing at or why they have stopped thinking.  People today have stopped thinking about things or making their own decisions.  They have lost they ability to make their insights on different topics.  The people have lost the concept of having their own ideas and are not only depending on television to tell them what to think or do.  Postman pretty much sums up the whole book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, in the last paragraph. Television is changing everything about the culture of today and it is not exactly for the better. People are losing ideas and it changing the way people do things, which causes destruction to the way they think.