Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Twitter Book Club: Neil Postman (1992) Technopoly - ch9

Scientism

"The quest to understand human behavior and feeling can in no sense except the most trivial be called science." Postmanless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"the social context in which people find themselves will be a controlling factor in how they behave." Postmanless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"we must not be dazzled or deluded by differences in method between preachers and scholars." Postmanless than a minute ago via Twittelator


Interesting line here, seeing as most of the conversations about this book on Twitter Book Club were with my sister, the preacher, and me, the scholar.

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