"Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces"
Don't blame me, I just report it...
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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Part of me had to chuckle because I was reading her lambasting of electronic information sources on a computer...but the medium drove home the message - my eyes tend to water when I read something that sustained on the screen - in contrast to good print on paper.
One multimedia weapon that has attacked reading is the "movie" version of every literary phenomenon which muscles in on the exclusive literary experience - the Harry Potter series is the best example I can think of - books which captured a readership but had to hand over a good chunk of that audience to the film and all the visual film spin-off merchandise which instills a specific image for each character - limiting the imagination.
I would like to think that we north of the border would somehow fare better than our neighbours to the south in this regard. However, I am not so sure.
I look around at my circle of friends and acquaintances, and I think they are all very well read and well informed.
However, that may be because I don't surround myself with stupid people. Therefore my sample is a bit skewed.
One thing though, University kicked the bejezus out of reading for pleasure for me for a few years.
I have gotten it back, but that was a fight.
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