Amusing Ourselves to Death

Chapter 4 Questions

What are the implications of the typographic metaphor for public discourse?

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“Indeed, the history of newspaper advertising in America may be considered, all by itself, as a metaphor of the descent of the typographic mind, beginning, as it does, with reason, and ending, as it does, with entertainment.”

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Amusing Ourselves to Death, pg. 58