We, We The People
Adult learners abandoned nonfiction books
iPhone Society
Since middle of year 2007, the Apple iPhone
The Apple iPad
The Android devices
Hand-held media screens, in your face, not a TV across the room!
That is what changed in year 2007.
That is what changed. Adult education shifted from Fox News Cable TV, HDTV, over to smartphones / tablets. Internet devices. Meme devices. Memes.
People became addicted to fiction memes, streaming fiction content, fiction and more fiction.
Andrew Postman
"For all the ways one can define fascism (and there are many), one essential trait is its allegiance to no idea of right but its own: it is, in short, ideological narcissism. It creates a myth that is irrefutable (much in the way that an image’s “truth” cannot be disproved), in perpetuity, because of its authoritarian, unrestrained nature."
“Television is a speed-of-light medium, a present-centered medium,” my father wrote. “Its grammar, so to say, permits no access to the past … history can play no significant role in image politics. For history is of value only to someone who takes seriously the notion that there are patterns in the past which may provide the present with nourishing traditions.”
https://www.theGuardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley
"The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about it"
Thu 2 Feb 2017 13.09 EST
Early YEAR 2017 Trump MAGA year