Changing Perception – Neil Postman Quote
“Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one’s actions or change one’s purpose.”
Neil Postman
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Education and Adaptability – Neil Postman
“The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.”
Neil Postman
Technology and the Human Dilemma – Neil Postman
“There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.”
Neil Postman
The Importance of Typography for Individuality and Community – Neil Postman
“Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.”
Neil Postman
The Role of the Past in Our Lives – Neil Postman
“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.”
Neil Postman
Neil Postman on Television and Cultural Self-Perception
“Television is our culture’s principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore — and this is the critical point — how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails.”
Neil Postman
Addiction and Satisfaction – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction”
Aldous Huxley
Higher Education and Virtue – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.”
Aldous Huxley
Error is better than apathy – G. Edward Griffin
“Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.”
G. Edward Griffin
Financial Manipulation and Political Control – Quote by G. Edward Griffin
“By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.”
G. Edward Griffin