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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 15 Dec \ on: Goodbye to the Age of the Book BooksAndArticles
Terrifying and kind of tragic... But also inevitable when cost of production fell to ~zero.
They will watch the Lord of the Rings movies, but never pick up the books. As a result, they are likely to have less scientific and analytic objectivity, and they will embody some of the worst and most volatile aspects of TikTok culture.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @orto OP 15 Dec
I agree. But what can a society that doesn't read books produce other than cacophony? I believe the decline of civilizations begins with abandoning reading. Otherwise, the languages of civilizations that existed in the past and no longer exist would have survived to this day. Examples: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Mayan inscriptions.
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