Trapped Inside The TV

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tendencies and public discourse of all the people in the respective communities. The print based societies can date as far back as the conversations that took place as cave paintings or smoke signals up to the invention of the alphabet and of course into the enlightened age of Colonial America. This place we call home, America was founded by a group of intellectual men who brought over readings, and books from the �Old World� to start their �New World� with. In America literacy rates climbed, and everyone wanted to read. As time went on, reading was no longer considered an elitist activity but rather an activity that was spread throughout all of America. �Every man was close to what [printed matter] talked about. Everyone could speak the same language�(Amusing Ourselves to Death, pg. 34). Americans in the Colonial day immersed themselves in reading. In order to comprehend the scattered symbols that lie on the page, one must posses something of great importance, an ...

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In a social age dominated by the printed word, public discourse would tend to be characterized by a coherent and orderly arrangement of facts and opinions. The public for whom it is written is usually more that competent enough to handle such a discourse (Amusing Ourselves to Death, pg. 51).
There is a serious disposition about books and the words that they hold, they do not create illusions, it is our imagination that does that. The people of today, however, do not always see the significance of a pensive literary publication. In the previous ages, their sophistication was without electricity; the printed word held a monopoly on both intellect and attention. There was no other means ...

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