Postman's Distiction

In the last paragraph of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman makes the distinction between thinking and laughing. He says that people do not know what they are laughing at and do not know why they have stopped thinking. This distinction matters because it shows how the decline in the age of typography has really affected us. Instead of thinking while doing any activity, such as watching TV, we just sit there and veg. We become entertained by the littlest and unimportant shows and ideas that we become ignorant to what is really going on around us. The rise in the age of television has made us unaware of what is going on in the world and stop caring about important things.