Why am I laughing???

Postman differentiates between people laughing and being entertained instead of actually thinking, and not knowing exactly why they are laughing. Postman makes it clear that people are laughing unknowingly. People don't realize that they are living to be entertained. They do not understand why instead of thinking about things, our society and culture has turned our everyday life into one large comic strip, people are laughing and find almost everything humerous instead of actually thinking about things. The main problem that Postman is trying to get at, is that society today does not understand why instead of thinking we have turned to laughing, comedy, and entertainment as our way of life.

Friday's Experience

       Friday's not talking adventure was extremely hard. I struggled the most during lunch, my lunch table was extremely quiet because everyone was not able to talk. As I was sitting there, not talking, starring at each other awkwardly, I began to realize how important and necessary talking is to function properly and have a "normal" social life. Without talking life becomes suddenly and extremely boring, and trying to get your point acrossed is definitely more frustrating. In the same way Postman is trying to convey in the first chapter of his novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, that our society is beginning to rely too heavily on the media as our medium and our way to communicate with other people instead of communicating with other actual human beings with words and emotions. Postman is correct in his belief that the world is too focused on striving for the new and cool way to communicate yet by creating these cool and instant ways of talking by texting, facebook, and email people are lacking in the experiences of a social life and talking to other people face to face to understand what they mean.

Postman's Speech

    
Postman talks about in both his novel Amusing Ourselves to Death and in the video about image. Postman in his novel writes about how people rely solely on their outward appearance. People only care about how they outwardly appear, not their jobs, such as newscasters who pay more attention to their makeup then their script and their actual job. While during his interview Postman discusses the idea of cloning, and says that cloning will soon become a main event in the world. Postman says that many peole will depend on having another clone to be used just "in case" if during life they need a new organ to save their life. People have also been known to clone a sheep, a frog, and even a monkey. Postman both in the video and book is clearly that in the future our society will only be concerned with our image and become selfish and unaware of other things around themselves.

    Postman also uses the example from the author from the book Being Digital who predicted that in the future people will become more comfortable talking to inanimate objects then people in his novel Amusing Ourselves to Death. In the same way in his interview Postman is explaining how he thinks that society already struggles with being able to talk to other people and in the future people will become pets to their computers. That technology is slowly but surely controlling people and their lives in many aspects. Postman clearly feels that in the future there will come a time when people solely depend on technology for living their lives and communicating with others, while in reality the best way for living in true face to face communication with others to improve ourselves and our society.