Cultural References
Roger Waters' 1992 album "Amused to Death" was, in part, inspired by and deals with some of the same subject matter as Postman's book. In "The End of Education" Postman remarks that the album had "elevated my prestige among undergraduates", and says that he has no "inclination for any reason." However, he describes that "he level of education required to appreciate the music of Roger Waters is both different and lower than what is required to appreciate, let us say, a Chopin étude ... Most American students are well tuned to respond with feeling, critical intelligence, and considerable attention to forms of popular music, but are not prepared to feel or even experience the music of Haydn, Bach, or Mozart; that is to say, their hearts are closed, or partially closed, to the canon of Western music ... There is, in short, something missing in the aesthetic experience of our young."
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