Postman Knocks Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report
Bradley Jackson
English comp. 1
23 February 2006
Postman Knocks
In 1984 Neil Postman delivered a speech at the Frankfort book fair held in Germany. His Oratory was addressed to a well-educated, and primarily, European audience. He began by comparing Orwell and Huxleys views on how society might be controlled in the future. Orwell saw a world where actions and thought were rigidly controlled by a Big Brother type government, while Huxleys vision was of a society so enamored of trivial entertainments that it had no motivation to think at all. He saw these two differing ideas as basically the same thing. An end to free thinking.
His German audience had only to look over the Berlin wall to see an example of Orwells visions becoming reality. They must have wondered if, by ignoring Huxleys warnings, they might come to a similar end, albeit, by a different route. Postman subtly plays to this fear throughout his speech.
Postman expresses his belief that, America, more than any other nation, has granted television ......
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