"Neil Postman, in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, explains how the age of show business has nullified book banning because no one bothers to even read. He believed that our love for the “technologies that undo our capacity to think” would make us into a culture that would lose its appetite for books and subsequently its ability to process difficult ideas or large quantities of information. In 1985, he predicted our severe reduction in literary skills, since he foresaw popular entertainment replacing attendance at lectures and symposiums."