Amusing Ourselves to death

Postman tells us that people are "laughing instead of thinking, but they did not know why." This only proves Postman's point in the book that entertainment all the time is bad for us. Entertainment takes over our lives, and we can no longer think for ourselves, instead the ability to think is eliminated. Because it is eliminated we think everything should then be entertaining for us, and give up if it is not.

Frustrating myself to death

To put it simply, Friday was extremely frustrating. A big thing that happened was that I had a doctors appointment, but the receptionist scheduled it at the wrong time. Upon arriving back at school, my friends then asked me how it went. But how could I tell them what happened just by drawings and actions? Of course, I soon realized that about 5 minutes later after looking like an idiot when I finally gave up. Just like Postman stated that you cannot do philosophy with smoke signals, I could not convey a complex idea with the few simple resources I had to communicate, it never worked, nor will it ever work.