The People Who Don’t Read Books
The Information Age's emphasis on speed over expertise contributes to "superficial culture in which even the elite will openly disparage as pointless our main repositories for the very best that has been thought
Information Age
The internet has dramatically changed our ability to know things, but our ability to change things has remained the same, or possibly diminished as a) most of our free-time is now spread out in unsatisfying micro doses of scrolling throughout the day b) seeming has become more important than doing.
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... See moreBooks that are “representative,” that are more easily “absorbed,” undermine the main reason to read them: to push readers beyond themselves in uncomfortable and productive ways.
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
it’s because we have generated a cult of experts that we have been subjected to the podcastization of all knowledge. If you “dialogue with the experts” in the right way, it’s as if the knowledge magically becomes yours.
We have begun treating knowledge in an acquisitive way , as if the more little tidbits one knows, the more intelligent one is
We have begun treating knowledge in an acquisitive way , as if the more little tidbits one knows, the more intelligent one is