尼爾·波茲曼
世界著名媒體文化研究者和批評(píng)家
The problem is not that we laugh too much， but that we laugh about everything.
Education has become entertainment， learning a form of amusement.
Technology gives us the illusion of thinking， while we merely process data.
We have more technology and fewer meanings.
Culture does not decline by being repressed； it declines by being trivialized.
Public discourse is transforming from rational argument into emotional performance.”
Television is at its most trivial when it tries to instruct.
In television， ideas must be compressed into slogans and jokes.
We no longer control information； it controls us.
The medium is not neutral； it shapes what it conveys.
The danger is not that we will be deprived of speech， but that we will have nothing worth saying.