The Disappearance of Thought

思想的消失

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2006-01-28

Neil Postman is generally considered a thoughtful liberal critic of technology and its deleterious effect on our culture. My friends praise his attacks on television and rethinking of education. But it’s hard for me to take him seriously after reading his The Disappearance of Childhood, in which he argues (p. 87) that television is bad because it teaches children homosexuality is normal and praises the Moral Majority as being the only group to realize this important truth. And true, he admits it’s an exaggeration to say “such a situation necessarily and categorically signifies cultural degeneration”, he does insist it clearly “poses dangers”.

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