Amusing Ourselves to Death

"For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking."

These concluding lines are really what Postman has been trying to say. He says that people aren't just "laughing instead of thinking," they really have no idea why they're doing that. People have taken entertainment for granted and everything has to entertain them. Now, people don't even know what they're laughing about or why they seek entertainment. They just know that without it, life seems boring. Because of this way of thinking, Postman tries to say that people are losing their ability to think. Now they not only search for entertainment, but they also have no clue that they are slowly letting their ability to think disappear. People don't even realize it. They've stopped thinking and they don't know why. This is what Postman has been saying throughout his book. People have forgotten what thinking means and replaced thinking with forms of entertainment. Except, now this entertainment is all that people know. They no longer want to think. People only want to be entertained.