re: #135 A Mom Anon

Why read when “someone” will show you something and make you believe it?

We’ve become a country of voyeurs, in more ways than one. Our anti-intellectualism is supported by our entertainment industry—movies, TV, the internet, which allow us to indulge it to our heart’s content without reading 99% of the time.

I remember 20 yrs ago when work mates used to bring in brown bags full of that Harlequin trash to trade and thought they were reading great literature. It’s why “50 Shades of Gray” became so popular, because it follows the same kind of formulaic “writing” but with a lot of sex thrown in.

Everybody “writes” these days, but nobody really reads.