In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman continues to discuss how people have gradually become obsessed with the printed word. As I was doing my APUSH homework, I came across the word nation state, and I watched a video on what exactly a nation state was. At the end of the video, it explained that the printing press in fact brought people closer together because news was allowed to be spread more efficiently, better connecting people. But if everyone were to go to meetings together, wouldn't that keep them connected as well.

Throughout the book so far, Postman seems to be displeased with the fact that, humans have to be able to read about something to grasp a concept. He says that before the establishment of the Printing Press, people would often get their information orally. He also goes into the fact that, people would sit for many hours and listen to debates that were on very complex topics. Mind you, this is before much of the general population was educated. I can agree with Postman that if these people could do  it, then we can as well. We don't have to get all of our information from television, newspapers, or magazines. We could all go to meetings in our city for information, but because we live in such a modern civilization, doing something like this would seem very silly, although it shouldn't.