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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman · 2006 · 184 pages

Recommended by 4 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Fatih Arslan recommends it
It's a little outdated, but still worth reading just to see how the world has, or hasn't, changed in the past 40 years.

on arslan.io · 26 Dec 2025

Nat Eliason recommends it
Everyone needs to read this book. The observations were made in a pre-internet era, and they’re 10x as relevant today. Nothing will do more to help cure your information addiction that the healthy dose of reality provided in these pages.

on nateliason.com · 7 Feb 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.