Postman did very well with his use of Kairos, or situation-based appeal in this article, which definitely helped add more to the overall persuasiveness of the piece. An example of how he did this was when he stated: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, because there would be no one who would want to read one. Orwell feared that the truth would be hidden from us." (p. 449) The reason this would be effective is because he was speaking at a book fair, where people who care about books and the prevalence of reading in society, if he had done this anywhere else, in a different time, it may have lost some of the effect on the audience. The use of this particular statement would have really appealed to audiences of the time due to their interest in books and their understanding of the importance of