Continued opinion

Well to add to what I previously said. Niel Postmans main point was that The United states has turned into a technopoly. Niel describes a technopoly

” as a society that believes that “the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency, that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment ... and that the affairs of citizens are best guided and conducted by experts.” page 51

Of course I disagree with his point, because not all labor is for efficiency. For example one might take the time to plant flowers for their beauty simply because they want to.

The second part of this quote from the book I disagree with as well because we as citizens do not constantly go to experts for every decision. I use the dictionary to find the meaning of a word not a linguist. The flaw in his statement is that people are naturally creative and he says otherwise in a sense. The affairs of citizens are not best guided and especially not conducted by experts. That is where innovation and self-reliance comes into play.

In general I think Niel Postman exaggerated the points he made about the effects of technology on mankind. I see where he is coming from and what he means, but he bashes the very tools he used to publish his literature. That is hypocritical. He is not a bad guy or anything like that. I just disagree with his point of view about technology. There are pros and cons of the technology of this day and age. I simply pay more attention to the positive. It's too bad he died in 2003 at the age of 72 from lung cancer.