Postman Ch. 11

The distinction that postman made at the end of chapter 11 was between laughing and thinking. He makes the distincion to show the cause for our transition from the age of typography and the age of television. Postman discusses that people were to amused to things in life that cause them to laugh and have fun and as a result caused them to stop thinking.This distinction shows how we are declining in our age of typography. We have become to consumed with the new technology of our era that we are not thinking of how to benefit our country but to make it more fun. Thus equaling our age of television and technology. Soon we will be completely overwhelmed and as a result we will lose our ability to think.