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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz8IvSNq2m4&spfreload=10
Chomsky on the New Illiteracy

>> No.7252773

You sure your pic isn't Michael Douglas in Falling Down?

>> No.7252798
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>>7252773
THINK ABOUT IT

>> No.7252872

>>7252773
60s Chomsky was boss

>> No.7254477

Excellent point. We ted to consume literature now rather than read it, though I'm not sure how much of that is down to electronic readers. Just look at how reading is generally described

>I consumed all three volumes in a week
>I devoured the book in one sitting

We're obsessed with stuffing our brains full of as much literature as we can without giving it due thought, just so we can get this reference or that; say that we've read a lot from this period. We define our intelligence by how much we have read. I'm as guilty of this as anyone else.

>> No.7254553

>>7252695

Technology and social media has caused too much ADHD in kids these days, just pry them off those and get them reading non-YA stuff and we're good but I'm guessing that's impossible to do so.

>> No.7254638

Will Self on the same topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w478daLAZM

>> No.7255307

Easy to dismiss as old man ranting, but I think he's more or less right. I'm hopeful that people will use technology more intelligently in the future - uncritical adoption is the reflexive reaction early on, but I'm hopeful that in 20-30 years there might actually be more people reading books than ebooks, or at least that the choice to do so might be conscious rather than an automatic reaction to new technology. (See, for example, the resurgence of vinyl.)

>> No.7255314

I don't agree that reading on a kindle is different to reading a book unless it's one of those kindles that's essentially an ipad (kindle fire?)

I read on a standard kindle, no backlight to send me into a trance, dictionary for all words, can highlight, bookmark and so on. It's the same experience

Except when I'm on No Fap and I can't stand it any more so I use the 'experimental browser' to beat off to a grainy black and white picture. But that's a rarity

>> No.7255338

>>7254638
This guy is a joke.

>> No.7255348

>>7252695

Is resting one of your arms on your head a requisite to being a public intellectual?

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>>7255348

>> No.7255364

>>7255348
>>7255352
I will now affect this pose

>> No.7255507

>>7252695
>Critique on how people want all of their information in small, easily digestible packages, a topic you could probably write a book on
>Crammed into a 4 minute video
It was interesting and I think there was a lot of truth in it. I disagree with the point about the kindle though. That's the fault of the reader not the device.

>> No.7256426

>>7255348
So, what kind of body language makes you look intelligent?

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>>7255348
>tfw I automatically do this while thinking and was doing this as I read your post