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How New Media is Eroding Critical Thinking and Destroying Childhood According to Neil Postman’s Media Criticism
There are two ways to wither the spirit of culture, one is Orwellian – culture becomes a prison, the other is Huxleyian – culture becomes a farce. ——Neil Postman Are we truly aware of how media affects us and our children? Paper books, magazines, newspapers. In the past, paper reading materials were the carrier of knowledge. People enjoyed reading and improved themselves in reading. Later, there was television. People shouted, how wonderful, vivid pictures, wonderful sounds, humans have never been so happy to acquire knowledge! Later, there was the Internet. People are ecstatic, there are no more boundaries, no restrictions, everything is free, and it has never been so easy…