Conscientious objections
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In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland. Social science as moral theology Defending against the indefensible The naming of missiles My German question A muted celebration A parable of ring around the collar The news The educationist as painkiller Etiquette Megatons for anthromegs The conservative outlook Remembering the golden age Columbusity Alfred Korzybski The disappearance of childhood Future shlock Safe-fail My graduation speech
ISBN: 9780394572703
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