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Appetite for Distraction: A BBC Radio 4 Series

By Matthew Syed
Narrated by: Matthew Syed
Unabridged — 1 hours, 9 minutes
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By Matthew Syed
Narrated by: Matthew Syed
Unabridged — 1 hours, 9 minutes
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Matthew Syed examines our collective addiction to entertainment, asking if we've been oppressed by mindless content and how we might break free

Forty years ago, Neil Postman's landmark book Amusing Ourselves to Death compared two dystopian visions - those of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley - and concluded that the latter had proved most prescient. Rather than oppression by Big Brother, humanity was in danger of being overcome by our `appetite for distractions': technologies that tap into our...