Chapter 11 of Amusing Ourselves to Death: The Huxleyan Warning

"Culture becomes a burlesque" in the Huxleyan way of destroying a culture. It does not matter the ideology. Rather than being forced into compliance, we happily walk into it. In many ways, this is more deadly than the Orwellian world, because the faults of it are sometimes invisible. Instead, we must see that technology is far from neutral, inherently biased. We will not go back to  a world without the technology that we have grown so attached to. One librarian hoped that her criticism of television would get media coverage - on television of course. Television is at its worst when it co-opts serious matters (religion, education) and dilutes them for ease of viewing. No matter what, though, television has to be amusing, or else it won't be watched. If television isn't watched, it is nothing. Because of this, reform of these flaws seems nigh impossible, but educators are becoming media-conscious, and Postman says that we simply have to be aware of what it is we are laughing at.