Conclusion

     The distinction is that H. G. Wells thought is was a race between education and disaster. Neil Postman believes that even with educated people, something is lost because we focus on entertainment. We lose track of what we are thinking about and become too focused on these superficial forms of entertainment. This new and addicting form of entertainment is becoming a way of life for us. Our whole world is beginning to revolve around it's purposeless and distracting messages. He states that we do not know what we are "laughing about and why they (we) had stopped thinking." This is entirely true about today's society. We are becoming a society run by entertainment. We are Amusing Ourselves To Death.