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==Origins==
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The book's origins are rooted in a talk Postman gave to the [[Frankfurt Book Fair]] in 1984, in which he was a participant in a panel on [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' and the contemporary world.  In the introduction to ''Amusing Ourselves to Death'', Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by [[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Brave New World]]'', whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by [[state violence]].