Comments on: Dostoevsky’s 1984 Saved Him from Our Brave New World

By: Top 9 Posts of 2009 | Don't Eat The Fruit

Top 9 Posts of 2009 | Don't Eat The Fruit — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:49:13 +0000

[...] Dostoevsky’s 1984 Saved Him from Our Brave New World – Combining the introduction to Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death with Dostoevsky’s prison time. [...]

By: johndyer

johndyer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:43:34 +0000

No doubt

By: Drew Goodmanson

Drew Goodmanson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10:01 +0000

btw- reminded me of one of my favorite technology quotes:

"The danger of the internet isn't necessarily the porn, but the continued wasting of time to find the next great thing." Dr. Michael Goheen

By: Triviality and information overload - deTheos

Triviality and information overload - deTheos — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:01:50 +0000

[...] this commentary by John Dyer , coupled with this introductory comic strip for Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to [...]

By: Phillip Gibb

Phillip Gibb — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:58:47 +0000

I definitely live in a world where there is an unending stream of information and mediums of disseminate that information. It seems that anyone can provide information; credible or not. If there is a Big Brother out there then his circuits are going to be blown very soon, lol.

Maybe it behooves us as Christians to be ever watchful of that stream and to keep the Word on tap – close, often and consistent. That is a challenge to me – Morning Quiet times just don’t cut it when the day is spend numbing oneself up against the deafening hum of information.

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» Random Acts of Linkage #115 ::: Subversive Influence — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:10:22 +0000

[...] number of feeds in my RSS reader alone make this a challenge: Information Deprivation vs. Information Overload — but for those of us aspiring mavens who need to stay “tuned in” occupationally, [...]

By: Rhett Smith

Rhett Smith — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:23:46 +0000

Brilliant post…Dostoevsky is what caught my eye of course…I consider him the greatest writer of all time myself.

What Postman has to say at the bottom of your post is so fascinating. I’m having to re-think a lot of stuff, and I believe that like Dostoevsky, that when we so saturate ourselves with something (be it the bible, technology, exercise, etc.) it begins to shape who we are.

The question is, what am I allowing to shape me then? I hate to say that it’s often not Christ as I drown him out in the noise of everything else…..sigh.

Rhett

By: @mediapeople (Nathan Davis)

@mediapeople (Nathan Davis) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:55:05 +0000

Brilliant man. Love this post. I love the books mentioned too. You have sent me on a tangent and quest to write more on the subject. Appreciate the work of putting this post together and your blog.

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:24:40 +0000

Ray Bradbury said his book, “Fahrenheit 451,” was not about gov’t oppression of books. (Funny, he could have fooled me into thinking that.) It was about the effect of technology on books. And on that, I agree with him. The TV of “451″ pushed out books, just like it and other entertainments do today, whether or not someone burns your books. I read a short story not too long ago about a book lover holed up on a river island as angry citizens stood on the other shore, ready to burn his compound down, because he dared still read books. Then I thought, “Whom is this author kidding? The average American today doesn’t care if or what you read, and never will.” Market forces will tamp down how many saleable books come out. The true book lover will have a harder and harder time enlarging his or her library with new, good books in the future.