Not long ago I mentioned to a friend that rather than scrambling for copies of 1984 people ought to be reading Huxley because it's turned out that Huxley was right. Then today I came across this extract from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death while I was recovering from my latte and donut. I haven't read Postman for ages but perhaps I ( Read more... )

Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie.