The Distinctive Postman

 In the last paragraph of "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Postman makes a distinction similar to that of Aldous Huxley's point in "Brave New World." The point is that because we are falling away from typography as a main source of communication, our lack of knowledge will lead to disaster. Like Postman explains about Huxley's book, "For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking." Likewise, we will eventually be so uneducated and desperate for entertainment that anything will entertain us, even if we do not understand the concept of it. This is the disaster that the two talk about: the knowledge of the human mind of the future.