In his 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness”, author Neil Postman warned about the effects TV had on education and reading.

“The uses of print and reading are not the same as they once were; not even in schools, the last institutions where print was thought to be invincible,” he wrote. “They delude themselves who believe that television and print coexist, for coexistence implies parity.”

If Postman was worried about the bulky box TVs of the ’80s, then one can only imagine how he’d feel about iPhones, iPads, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and artificial intelligence.

And 41 years after the book’s release, Americans are beholden to digital devices — which is why Patrick Gray, a professor of religious studies at Rhodes College, believes it’s as relevant today as it was then. 

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