First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls Tx.

Neil Postman wrote a book that has absolutely been a standard critique of American culture. It was called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In that book, he wrote a couple of quotes that that just stood out to me. Listen to what he wrote. People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. People will come to adore the technologies that will undo their capacities to think. Another quote, when a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, then serious public conversation becomes impossible. Now those two quotes are absolutely true of American society but let me tell you what's what's startling about them. Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death in 1985. Forty years ago, before anybody had a cell phone, before anybody had a smartphone, he wrote, we will come to adore our technologies.