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i. A Brief Introduction of Amusing Ourselves to Death There is a subtitle Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business following the title Amusing Ourselves to Death in the original book, the addition of which constitutes the complete title (Chinese version has removed the subtitle). Boltzmann starts with Orwells and Huxleys predictions, namely the two ways of the destruction of culture. whether culture will become a reality rather than the former. Then he puts forward his basic thought Media are Metaphor, which means that media is a kind of discourse structure, and it is the form decides the content in our real life, not the other way around. Then Boltzmann tells people that American was once a society where print could flow freely in each class and in every field with a great number of examples. In the environment where paper media pervade, people are rational, logical and more serious. But nowadays, American society is occupied by TV sets. The invention of television has the tendency of destroying our culture. With television being the electronic media, the spread content of our society is incoherence and lacking of context, so is simple, short, trivial and entertaining. Ao entertainment is more and more infiltrating into every corner of the American society, including politics, education, religion, etc, thus deconstructing the American public discourse. For all of this, as Boltzmann points out that, it is OK with television and entertainment itself but the problem lies in that those so-called elites are trying to endow TV with earnestness and loftless because the essence of TV is entertainment. People come out of the Interpretation age and into the Entertainment era. Junk information pours in out daily life at an unprecedented speed. Therefore, Boltzmann outs forward his solution-rely on school education at the end of his book. ii. Reflection on Amusing Ourselves to Death Just as Plato put it, the form of conversation of human has a significant impact on the tho