Neil Postman on Entertainment in Television
“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.”
Neil Postman
Media Change and Truth – Neil Postman
“As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.”
Neil Postman
“The World Is an Illusion” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.”
Aldous Huxley
Spiritual Journey and Self-Knowledge – Aldous Huxley
“The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.”
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley on Education, Truth and Critical Thinking
“Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.”
Aldous Huxley
Quote About Intelligence and Society – Aldous Huxley
“which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”
Aldous Huxley
“Man Is Hypnotized” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry”
Aldous Huxley
Money Creation and Debt – Quote by G. Edward Griffin
“In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.”
G. Edward Griffin
George Bernard Shaw Quotes: Why All Great Art Is Propaganda!
“All great art and literature is propaganda.”
George Bernard Shaw
Neil Postman: Different Treatment of Writers in Russia and America
“In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.”
Neil Postman