Paglia's Generation

For me, Paglia won on page 289. The use of metaphors all tied together perfectly, and drew me in. The comparison of playing football to watching TV or comparing driving to watching television. Paglia related to the here & now in every aspect of argument. The hair cuts in Charlie's Angels, and pop culture in general. Postman kept reverting to the past for his arguments. Paglia also talks about her generation as a whole "they can't understand how we who were born after the war can read a book and watch TV at the same time." With each argument Paglia makes television much more relevant and necessary to culture as a whole. Postman makes his argument strong but continues to make print sound even more outdated.

With Postman's generation he discusses focusing on one thing over anther. Postman looks at reading a book as a single action that involves your attention. Paglia lives for the here and now, the multi tasking. Paglia show's how television can be analyzed but usually isn't. I believe that television can be held to an equally as high esteem as literature if people were to sit down and actually think about it, rather than scanning it. In this day & age, our generation can scan anything, including a book, thus losing the imaginative aspects Postman refers to.