Neil Postman's theory still holds up and is extended to the Internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

> In the introduction to Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state violence.

And modern America asked itself, why can't it be both?