Alyssa’s AP Blog

           I believe that Postman was trying to get us to stop our lives for a moment and look at what extent the television has had a negative effect on our society. We have to do this through looking at two excerpts from novels from an era without TVs that explain what the feel the future will turn out to be like. Both books were written before TVs were everywhere, but they were from very different times too and so their outlooks were different. Postman is trying to get us to think about how the TV has corupped us into thinking that there is no reason to read a book when we can just watch the movie version instead. Orwell’s thoughts that everyone would want to read a book and we wouldn’t be allowed to. That clearly didn’t happen in 1984. But has Huxley’s ideas of our society being ruined by the laziness of people that don’t think it important to read a book turned into our present?