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16134964 No.16134964 [Reply] [Original]

Why aren't we reading anymore?

>> No.16134968

Netflix and switch basically.

>> No.16134971

Because television + the internet exists.

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16134973

>>16134964
>we
What convinced you, Malcolm Gladwell?

>> No.16134976

>People read Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/4chan/etc
>NOOOOOOOOOOO THAT DOESN'T COUNT!!!!!!

>> No.16134978

>>16134971
This

Plus reading is boring. Prove me wrong.

>> No.16135012

>>16134978
>reading is boring
So this is how people cope with their non-existent attention span?

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16135019

>People read Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/4chan/etc
NOOOOOOOOOOO THAT DOESN'T COUNT!!!!!!

>> No.16135039

>>16135019
Don't be retarded

>> No.16135042

>>16134964
finite free time, proliferation of screens naturally crowds some things out. not like it really fell off a cliff outside of the 45+

the 45-54s and up dipped hard post-gfc, so i'm expecting thats people who'd otherwise retire no longer being able to do so. work naturally takes up leisure time

>> No.16135043

>>16134964
Now show the declining attention span of burgers

>> No.16135070

>>16135039
Chad isn’t retarded he understands that social media doesn’t count as reading

>> No.16135144

>>16134964
Few historically, have ever read for pleasure; most, on the contrary, have read to learn or explore certain concepts in the most direct and refined way available. The industrial revolution changed that: increasing literacy for the masses and allowing the majority to seek forms of entertainment greater than that of playing Jacks. The decreasing number of readers in general could be due to the availability of better forms of entertainment for the masses. These new forms of media cut out that portion of low IQ/non-patrician readers.
It doesn't really matter though, the groups who would have become readers are likely those who would've only consumed Genre-fiction and YA, not those of who would've sought the western cannon and philosophy.

>> No.16135150

>>16134964
Immigration

>> No.16135155

>>16134964
i mean, if we are being more accurate we are reading more then ever. the only problem is that we are reading twitter feeds and not books.

>> No.16135162

>>16134973
why you keep posting this random pic?

>> No.16136193

>>16134978
Why are you even here, then?

>> No.16137265

anime is literally the pinnacle of everything that literature can bring to the table. Why the fuck should anyone read?

>> No.16137276

>>16134964
no one's writing good books

>> No.16137280

>>16134964
2003-2016 graph lol what's the use in that
think the decline in reading began a bit before that matey boy

>> No.16137334

>>16134964

Interesting to see that uptick in seniors reading right after the Kindle Keyboard was released, wonder if there was any correlation there.

>> No.16137347

>>16135144

>western cannon

my booky go boomboom

>> No.16137408

>>16135144
you can write very good genre-fiction.
and i don't think anyones every written any good philosophy books

>> No.16137427

>>16135144
all the best writers had a dominant entertainment motive