Postman's Final Thoughts

In Postman's final thoughts of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" he states that people are laughing for no reason and instead of thinking about the idea they just laugh it off.  It is like America is just laughing off all the important ideas so we do not have to think about them or discuss them.  They find that it is easier to shrug things off and laugh as opposed to thinking about it, discussing it, and putting it together as a fact.  People have become so accustomed to just laughing at the news or things like that and being entertained that when it comes to actually important issues they do not know what to do.  It is a big problem that people do not know what to take seriously now and that they just keep laughing things off because they do not realize that they need to think about it. They just laugh because they forget there is even another option.