In the concluding paragraph of chapter 11, Postman makes the distinction between laughing and thinking. Postman is saying that the danger in the age of television is that people no longer know why they are laughing, and they also do not know why they have stopped thinking. This distinction is crucial to the premice of Amusing Ourselves to Death because it reveals the ultimate result of a decline in the age of typography. Altogether, as a result of society's ignorance to their lack of thinking, people will just continue to be mindlessly entertained by the meaningless content of their television screens, and completely lose the ability to think for themselves.
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