Postman: agitated amnesiacs

Television's Bill Moyers...says "I worry that my own business...helps to make this an anxious age of agitated amnesiacs...We Americans seem to know everything about the last 24 hours but very little of the last 60 centuries or 60 years"

A mirror records only what we are wearing today. It is silent about yesterday.  With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

p.140&141