《娛樂至死》這本書雖然討論的議題（媒體生態學、媒體科技對文化的影響等）和當代非常有關，但書本身是一本很硬的哲學書，很慚愧的我也看不太完。

新版介紹有一段印象深刻、切題的摘句，Postman 比較了歐維爾的《1984》描述反烏托邦，相對於赫胥黎的《美麗新世界》，下譯：

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. As Huxley remarked, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

歐維爾恐懼禁書的政權。赫胥黎所害怕的，則是再也沒有任何禁書的理由，因為沒有任何人會想要看書。歐維爾害怕資訊被剝奪，赫胥黎則害怕過多海量的資訊導致我們更被動，更本位主義。歐維爾害怕真相被蒙蔽，赫胥黎則害怕真相被無關的事物所淹沒。歐維爾害怕文化被當權者掌握，赫胥黎則害怕文化被瑣事佔據。赫胥黎評論，時時警醒反對暴政的公民學者與理性主義者「未能考量到人類對於分散注意力的近乎無限的渴望」。

Tristan Harris（Center for Humane Technologies；《智能社會：進退兩難（The Social Dilemma）》）的 Your Undivided Attention podcast 也剛好講到了這句：