# Neil Postman

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Kuyperian Media Automated transcript of the sermon audio, generated with OpenAI Whisper (small.en). It has not been checked against the recording and may contain errors, especially in names and Scripture references. Good evening, everyone. Well, tonight, you get to speak on Kiparian media. It's go…

Hoodwinked: My Conversation with Dr. Mara Einstein About Marketing and Cult Influence - How marketers turn anxiety and belonging into profit—and how we can protect our freedom of mind.

Mara teaches at Queens College, the very place where I was recruited into the Moonies cult in 1974. She came to the study of influence through advertising and media. I came to it through my experience in a destructive cult and my work helping others understand and recover from authoritarian control…

The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

You can't help but notice, in yourself and in others, how much less people are reading these days. When it comes to content consumption, we're often replacing articles and books with videos and, well, podcasts. My guest says that this shift is having consequences, not only for our shrinking individ…

I Started to Hate My Niche But Was Afraid To Quit. Here's What Happened When I Did.

I traded views for something that feels more like me. I started to hate my niche but was afraid to quit. In this episode, I talk about what changing direction cost me, why I held on to the Broken Traditions name for so long, and how to tell if you're a "digital correction officer": someone stuck m…

Brett McCracken on Becoming Slaves to Our Phones, Why AI Will Make Us Dumber, and AI Girlfriends

Is your phone making you a slave? Is AI making us dumber? Brett McCracken joins Dan Leibrandt to talk about phone addiction, brain rot, AI girlfriends and sycophantic chatbots, and how Christians can stay wise and human in the age of AI. Brett McCracken is a senior editor at The Gospel Coalition an…

Can a Machine Convert You?

Luke and Gomer are back after a recording break, and Luke opens by admitting he left the gas running for fifteen minutes. Gomer has been using AI to research female reproductive health ahead of an NFP episode, and Luke is not having it. The argument ends up on whether a Catholic AI app can actually…

ADHD in the Internet Age: Media Literacy, Guanfacine, and the Loop

Paris Hilton’s ADHD grift. Guanfacine’s quiet substitution for stimulants. The search term economy. The tribal internet. In this episode, Jonathan Murphy, PMHNP-BC, connects the dots between what’s happening online and what’s happening in his office. The internet created a two-way signal. Your sear…

The Soul In Digital Space

By the mid-1990s, it became clear that the Internet would drastically transform people and cultures. The effect would be total and not limited to a few high-tech nerds. At some point a technology becomes ecological, as Neil Postman pointed out—it shapes our whole way of being. Written against this …

Everybody Loves Images!

In this episode, we talk about Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, a 1985 book that saw our screen-saturated world coming. We discuss words versus images, the second commandment, why we’re so afraid to sit alone with our thoughts, and why Christians, as people of the Word, should be the firs…

66. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Media, Technology, and the Life of the Mind

Neil Postman warned that a culture consumed by entertainment would eventually struggle to think deeply about serious things. In this episode, we revisit his prophetic book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and consider its relevance in our age of smartphones, social media, and endless digital content. H…