They may be reading books less but from what I see they are continually readingtracydinh96 wrote:Since technology is getting more advances people are reading less
Why People Read Less And Less
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Re: Why People Read Less And Less
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that's why i give Libraries big Kudos!....
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I think TV is a whole new culture and a new medium to learn and thrive from. I won’t suggest there aren’t any downsides to TV. It is obviously more consumerism-dependent than reading ever was. Also as it is easier to watch then it ever was to read, people tended to do watch TV and do nothing else but this wasn’t really the case for reading at any time in history. This is probably what scares people.
It is also apparent that there is good TV and bad TV. We have some really important and really good movies that have really good thoughts and messages lying within in them and we shouldn’t just see past them. They exist and carry the potential to teach and mold our personality as much as a good book can. And I want to point out that there also are good books and bad books. It isn’t like every book is good and every TV product is bad. There are goods and bads to everything.
So I don’t think it is correct to just rule out TV and call it the obviously bad choice, because almost all of the bad qualities that are thought of TV can be attributed to books if you imagine them couple of centuries ago. I am sure there have been moms complaining to their children to go out and play instead of sitting at home and reading.
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Try to get your kids, grandkids, neighbors kids... random kids on the street, to read! Please! I want my son to grow up with literate, intelligent classmates!
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We have made up so many excuses for not pushing ourselves, or our children to read that we have come to regret other's loss in the value of reading. Sure television and technology has evolved rapidly over the years, yet along with them there are even more methods available to promote reading. Almost every home in America today has one or multiple platforms that permits access to reading. There are even multiple libraries accessible online, wanting people to use the resources once only available inside the brick and mortar building down town.
So, again, what is the excuse for noone taking advantage of the readily available resources?!
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Thank you for making this point. I think what books can give us (almost universally) is perspective. Whether we read cheap paperback romances or classic literature, any book is a glimpse of the world (real or idealized) as seen by the author, and that can expand our minds. That said, academia is very involved with the internet, and it is often more beneficial to learn from articles or textbooks than just reading and reading. Incidentally, I could tell you about the political machinations of Botswana and why people won't actually have to learn Chinese to be successful in business 50 years from now, but I didn't learn any of that from books (well, maybe a little - sometimes it's hard to remember). On the contrary, magazines and online publications are often much more informative for academic purposes, and because students/researchers/persons who want to be informed spend so much time reading these non-books, I can understand why large portions of the population would rather veg in front of the tv or play video games rather than read even more. So, I concede that reading CAN be beneficial in terms of brain development/honing, but maybe recreational reading shouldn't be associated too closely to intelligence or knowledge.tinyViolin wrote:In my studies, I also learned that English majors can be real a-holes. Among them, be they fat short tall or hairy, there is the widespread misconception that because they read, they are smart. This is not true. People who don't read novels and are smart obviously realize this, but they are too smart to care. They are busy learning Chinese or untangling the political machinations of the leader of Botswana.
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