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Title: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander ISBN: 0-688-08274-2 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: March, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Whatever you do, get this book & read it!
Comment: I have read a bunch of other reviews on this site & I cannot add much. "Four Arguments" is simply excellent and fascinating. Get it. Read it. Buy a copy for each of your friends. It has totally changed the way I view and think about television. Check out his other books: "The Case Against the Global Economy" (a collection of essays by Mander & other great writers and thinkers) and "In the Absense of the Sacred." Both are very, very good. And while you're at it, get yourself a copy of E.F. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful." Look for books by people like Jeremy Rifkin & Kirkpatrick Sale too. If we want a better, saner world we have to begin by educating ourselves. We must train our minds to look beyond the hype and BS. The truth is out there...
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a perfect book, but an engaging and insightful one
Comment: /Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television/ is conclusive evidence that the way television is currently used is damaging and should be heavily reformed. Admittedly, Jerry Mander isn't great with words; he runs off on technophiliac tangents and once demeans scientists pointedly for being slow to study the effects of television. However, his main arguments are solid, and his book is good at getting the reader thinking about the larger picture outside that of the television screen. I would recommend this book to anyone who occasionally remarks offhand, "I think I must be addicted to TV", and then laughs nervously.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating
Comment: People will either react violently to this book, or they will acknowledge its truth. They will react violently because it bespeaks a whole new language of wisdom, how we view ourselves, and the world. They will acknowledge and embrace its truth because they know in their cores that something about this book is worth considering.
All of the time we spend in front of the television, Mander says, is mediated by so many factors outside of our inherent awareness (the here, now) that we have little choice but to use it as our only source of information. That alone warrants the abandonment of television as an unbiased information source.
Mander argues extensively, and conclusively, about how we are closing our minds by watching television. It is very compelling for someone who has been wondering for a while what could have made people lose trust in their own truth, and their ability to think for themselves. Could it be something in our environment, in the way we structure our lives? Could it be that the way that we are trained to think by mediums such as television is that "we know all we need to know"?
He does go off on other diatribes related to his "argument" for cessation of television. They are very well delivered, however, and warrant a serious read. His writing style makes you think for yourself, and the introduction chapter dedicates itself to explaining to you how he wrote the book and what his purpose was by having you read it.
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Title: The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers and Family Life by Marie Winn ISBN: 0142001082 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations by Jerry Mander ISBN: 0871565099 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman ISBN: 0140094385 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Glued to the Tube: The Threat of Television Addiction to Today's Family by Cheryl Pawlowski ISBN: 1570714592 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman ISBN: 0679751661 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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