Editing Amused to Death (section)

== Title ==
The album's title was inspired by [[Neil Postman]]'s book ''[[Amusing Ourselves to Death]].'' In Postman's later book ''The End of Education'', he remarks on the album:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/albums/amused/response.html|title=ATD - Neil Postman's Response|access-date=2 August 2015|archive-date=2 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102120544/http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/albums/amused/response.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Rose191>Rose 2015, p. 191</ref>

{{blockquote|Roger Waters, once the lead singer of Pink Floyd, was sufficiently inspired by a book of mine to produce a CD called ''Amused to Death''. This fact so elevated my prestige among undergraduates that I am hardly in a position to repudiate him or his kind of music. Nor do I have the inclination for any other reason. Nonetheless, the level of sensibility required to appreciate the music of Roger Waters is both different and lower than what is required to appreciate, let us say, a Chopin étude.}}