Building a Bridge to the 18th Century — Media, Reason, and Democratic Culture (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine thesystems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Building a Bridge to the 18thCentury by Neil Postman as a systems-level examination of how mediatechnologies reshape cognition, education, and democratic discourse.
By contrasting Enlightenment ideals with contemporaryinformation culture, the book reveals why societies struggle to maintain reasonand skepticism amid speed, spectacle, and data saturation. The episode examineshow these systems persist even as trust and meaning decline.
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