"Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours...When a population becomes distracted by trivia when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conservations becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility."
(Source: The Freedom Times, June 2022, pg.10)
* Neail Postman (1931-2003) was an American author, educator, and cultural critic.
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