In the concluding chapter of Technopoly, Neil Postman provides some ways that the “loving resistance fighter” can fight against the American Technopoly: Resistance fighters are those who…

  • pay no attention to a poll unless they know what questions were asked, and why
  • refuse to accept efficiency as the pre-eminent goal of human relations
  • have freed themselves from the belief in the magical powers of numbers, do not regard calculation as an adequate substitute for judgment, or precision as a synonym for truth
  • refuse to allow psychology or any "social science" to pre-empt the language and thought of common sense
  • are, at least, suspicious of the idea of progress, and who do not confuse information with understanding
  • do not regard the aged as irrelevant
  • take seriously the meaning of family loyalty and honor, and who, when they "reach out and touch someone," expect that person to be in the same room
  • take the great narratives of religion seriously and who do not believe that science is the only system of thought capable of producing truth
  • know the difference between the sacred and the profane, and who do not wink at tradition for modernity's sake
  • admire technological ingenuity but do not think it represents the highest possible form of human achievement