Conscientious Objections
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-73421-5
- Duration:
- 6 days
- Authors:
- Neil Postman
- Pages:
- 201
- Rating:
- ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
| date started | date finished | duration | locations |
|---|
| 2016-12-04 | 2016-12-10 | 6 | San Francisco |
review
Collection of essays on different topics from education, childhood, politics, technology, television etc. Postman, as always, provides insights into our culture (mostly American) and suggests some practical ideas how to prevent negative ongoing trends. As always he uses wisdom of sages, thinkers, writers, and philosophers from the past to help us understand current social issues.
His essays and observations draw a picture of quite sad future. A lot of this predications are already fulfilled, so Postman is unfortunately was very accurate in them which he poses as warnings for us.
However, what I liked about this book is that he tries to stay optimistic. He reminds us that civilized society is very vulnerable and we should pay attention to dangers. And he tries to provide us with a mindset how to do just that.