Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to … - Neil Postman

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I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Neil Postman

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us. . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

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