Refer, for instance, to the opening lines of chapter 4: "The Improbable World"
"Although it is clear," says Postman, "that 'social science' is a vigorous ally of Technopoly and must therefore be regarded with a hostile eye, I occasionally pay my respects to its bloated eminence by inflicting a small experiment on some of my colleagues."
or try another passage near the end of the same chapter:
"Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems."
In the same chapter (I really didn't like this chapter) he relates an experiment where he "proves" that information is the God of today's society by presenting bogus facts with the pretense of obtaining them from a creditable source. What is the reaction? According to Postman, it is one of acceptance due to our blind faith in science, technology, and information. In reality, the situation he presents is so ridiculous and irrelevant that it is inevitable that the person will just shake his head 'yes' in a sort of "yeah, whatever," gesture. How many people would actually go out and eat 3 chocolate eclairs as is assumed by Postman in relation to his experiment? If they really took it seriously, they would check up on the validity of the comment by researching it; thus rendering Postman's thesis as null. People do not unquestionably accept information!
It's outbursts like these that make Postman -despite his good but exaggerated intentions- so hard to take seriously.
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