Within chapter Five, Postman reveals to the reader how the current bombardment of information has happened. He claimed there are three areas within culture that have centered upon managing and/or limiting information: academic institutions, families in the upbringing of their children, and the courts of law. However, as we see within culture today, a form of technopoly has intruded each of these areas with information encompassing all that we know, leaving us completely immune from what is occurring within the world- there is no escaping it. Postman finishes the chapter by introducing the reader towards how technopoly has redefined culture through its continued elevation of "bureaucracies, expertise, and technical machinery [as the] principle means by which Technopoly hopes to control information and thereby provide itself with intelligibility and order." (91)
How then, is this any different from Marxism as mentioned earlier in the chapter? And, to further the point, isn't there a movement for socialism and Marxists theories trying to creep its way into the American life right now with current political decisions? Maybe Postman wasn't too far off when he mentioned "...history takes a long time, and there yet may be developments that will prove Marx's vision with fresh sources of versimilitude." (81)
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