/lit/ - Literature

>>21982983
>Music and tv are just information that is flowing in requiring little to no processing, some of it may stay in memory (like general outline of a movie plot but thats it), it pretty much completely useless, and does not bring any mental benefits.
What? Music demands mental exercise and promotes development in the same terms you've described for books. It is but one of the wells from which to draw inspiration and refine your mind. Now, you might be thinking
>but there's no way you can exercise your mind like that with modern music
For one, good music has always been obscure and required effort to find and appreciate, though nowadays, like many other good things, it has become much harder to swim through the cesspool if you don't know how to navigate through it. Now, what I just greentexted is the problem with listening to jungle noise like rap, kpop and other garbage. Rather, music is quite similar to books in that whether your brain will develop great tastes or atrophy your capabilities depends on the media you're reading/listening to. Imagine an adult who's read nothing but Harry Potter and Ready Player One, and me telling you that a dunce who's been addicted to BTS and anime idolshit is just as mentally incapable won't come off as a surprise.
A lot of people talk about the benefits of listening to good music, or reading good books; few dare mention the dangers of listening to shit, simplistic, tribal "music", or reading basic bitch "books". I recommend this book if you're interested on the subject, though I don't think it's been translated to english.
>games requiring mouse may train hand to eye cordination but frankly that is also a useless skill.
Nah, games teach you to observe through patterns and find potential exploits in a system. You could even say that they have served as an introduction to the english language to a relevant portion of the global population. Not as great as books or music, but far from useless.