Patrick Martin

“I quickly realized there was more thinking going on in the bike shop than in my previous job at the think tank.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

“Together, this ensemble of electronic techniques called into being a new world—a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is a world without much coherence or sense; a world that does not ask us, indeed, does not permit us to do anything;”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“the assumptions controlling a news show are “that bite-sized is best, that complexity must be avoided, that nuances are dispensable, that qualifications impede the simple message, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, and that verbal precision is an anachronism.”[3]”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business