关于认识论

Postman 不是在批评娱乐文化，而是在批评电视媒体隐含的认识论。这种批判是很有力的：电视节目没有办法被改善 - Postman已经将它宣判了死刑。

几个段落可以说明这一论点：

"What I am claiming here 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 taht television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining..."

"Neither do I put much stock in proposals to improve the quality of television programs. Television, as I have implied earlier, serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politic, science, education, commerce, religion - and turns them into entertainment packages. We would all be better off if television got worse, not better."

"The problem, in any case, does not reside in what people watch. The problem is in that we watch."

"what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking."