Entertainment is all that matters

In the closing lines of the book, Postman makes the distinction between a concerned society and an unconcerned society. He certainly believes that laughing instead of thinking is fine, but the problem arises when we no longer care about what we are laughing at so long as we are being amused. And when we stop concerning ourselves with that fact, we stop caring about why we have stopped thinking. Our form of entertainment today is so simplistic and as soon as the television turns on, it’s like our minds shut off as we prepare ourselves for the gumbo it will feed us. We don’t care about what we are watching, what we are thinking, or even think about thinking for that matter, when that glowing box is before us.