| I know mine is, and that I am extremely susceptible to all of these techniques. That said, this bit about books is a bit much "They are NOT made to be amusing, but to be EDUCATIONAL. INFORMATIONAL. Eye-opening" I don't know the stats, but a good chunk of books are meant to be amusing. If anything we've learned to communicate better through the written word than ever before in history. I am reminded of this xkcd from 2014 https://xkcd.com/1414/ I suspect that in an alternate timeline without the internet or television we would have much lower literacy rates, and a public less informed about the real world. Most people would spend their time talking to one another, building more meaningful relationships, and believing in nonsense their friends and family relayed incorrectly. Maybe so many of us allow our attention span to be robbed, because so many more of us see the world for what it is, have resigned ourselves to our place in it, and would rather not think about these painful truths every day. Maybe if we kept sequestering knowledge on dead trees, only to be consumed by a small privileged audience and created by an even smaller more privileged group of creators blessed by institution, then more people would be blissfully unaware of the problems in the world and wouldn't crave distraction. I had another point but my adderall is wearing off and I can't remember. |