but few, if any, of their words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully chosen soundbites. Postman mentions Ronald Reagan, and comments upon Reagan's abilities as an entertainer. Cultural references Roger Waters' 1992 album Amused to Death is titled after Postman's book, and is in part inspired by and deals with some of the same subject matter. In The End of Education, Postman remarks that the album's reference to his work: Postman's concept of the "information-action ratio" was referenced in the Arctic Monkeys song "Four Out of Five" off the band's 2018 album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, where the Information Action Ratio is the name of a fictional taqueria on the moon. In a 2019 interview with Kjersti Flaa, comic and actor Zach Galifianakis references Amusing Ourselves to Death with the line "you will stop hearing the term 'big brother' because we will do it to ourselves." Galifianakis employed the quotation in response to a question the interviewer asked about whether or not he uses social media, to which he replied with a denunciation of the negative effects of the internet on society in general. See also Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, 1978 critique of television by Jerry Mander The Plug-In Drug, 1977 critique of television by Marie Winn B-Television Media criticism Bread and circuses One-Dimensional Man Manufacturing Consent The Global Trap The End of Education Is Google Making Us Stupid? Network (1976), film satire of television news as entertainment Bowling Alone Infotainment References Further reading External links The Neil Postman Information Page Neil Postman: Collected Online Articles 1985 non-fiction books Books about the media Books about totalitarianism Books about television Books about hyperreality Television criticism Viking Press books Books about media theory