The Residue of Postman's Words

    After finally finishing Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death I developed a question about our media and discourse and entertainment all together. With the way we are televising more and more serious discourse topics, will there be a day where everything is wrapped in a pretty bow and presented to the masses as entertainment and not the actual content that it says it is spreading. Such as education, religion, and politics that all have been given an "Age of Show Business" make over, that in reality just dissipates any authenticity of the serious topic. 

    In the final chapter Postman states that the next generations only hope of understanding and having control of our shallow inconsistent media and discourse is the United States Education System, which honestly is not the best. However, we are reading this book now, in our american english class to learn about our media and discourse, which we most likely had no prior knowledge of it's dangers or control. So at least in this aspect we now, hopefully, have a better understanding of how our present media and discourse shapes and defines information, which was Postman's goal at least partially achieved. 

    Nonetheless I revert to my previous inquiries of where is the media of television, and social media taking the serious discourse of our society? Will it all eventually be fluff and giggles or will we become aware and learn about the difference it truly makes in our lives, and put in the effort to truly understand it?