How to avoid amusing yourself to death

Back in 1985, Neil Postman cautioned about a world centered around TV culture in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death.

Postman viewed advertisements as the perfect embodiment of our image-centric world. In his view, advertisements don’t really inform, but rather tell a seductive story to make consumers yearn for a product. Postman cited the fact that the average person was exposed to 1 million…