>>16374378
>Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it.
it's true
just like in Huxley's Brave New World
the only one with Shakespeare and high art were the controllers of the society
the alphas, betas, deltas, gammas, etc. were there to work and consume and nothing more
I can attest that a lot of my linguistic skill and efficacy in communicating, salesmanship, and female seduction can be attributed to my lifetime of reading
I've really noticed the quality of writing severely degrade year on year to the point that people cannot hold longform arguments and ideas. Everything needs to be condensed to a soundbite. By consuming so much social media feeds and newsfeeds online, the thinking has fractured and people's thoughts aren't as coherent and structured as before when reading was more common.
When you read, you visualize with your minds eye in ways that visual media can't engage. Just like a dream, your vision is from your mind while you read and not from any actual visual stimuli. As people lose this ability, their thinking degrades.
I suspect this is intentionally being done so as to dampen and suppress dissidents.