Daniel Boorstin's The Promise Of Democracy

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Daniel Boorstin, an American professor, historian, writer, and attorney, is highly celebrated for his publications that classify him as an old fashioned patriot. However, Boorstin believed that Democracy and technology had consequential effects on an American’s experiences. Also, that the problems society faces are from the success of society than its failures. Boorstin uses four consequences to determine the relationship between success that technology and democracy have with each other: attenuation, or the decline of poignancy (391), decline of congregation, or new segregation (396), new determinism, or the rising sense of momentum (397), and the belief in solutions. Boorstin believed that we need to think about a process, not about a condition, and the two sides of what is needed in order to change away from problems.
Poetry and imagination have to deal with keeping the exploring spirit alive by not sacrificing the possibilities of the unknown for repeating, predictable surroundings. (401) Boorstin’s ending point, “The Promise of American democracy, I suggest, depends on our ability to stay at sea, to work together in community while we all reach to the open horizon” brings his views altogether, which express that technology and democracy may be changing how we interpret experiences, but if we work together then we can find new experiences or different technologies to “un-democratize” our view of the