Laughing instead of Thinking

 Postman makes a distinction between people laughing instead of thinking and people not knowing what they were laughing about and why they stopped thinking. Postman points out that people are no longer thinking, but the problem is that they are unaware why they are laughing instead of thinking. Therefore  people laugh more and think less, but do not even notice the difference. This distinction is important because it shows the problem of our changing society is rooted much deeper than just switching from thinking to laughing. The problem is we do not understand the reason the change is taking place.