[maipen]

Most people never really developed the habit of reading.

They sure did consume the newspaper but that has now been replaced with social media. The medium changed but the habits did not.

I think author is having an existential crisis instead of the world as he wrote.

The addiction of these mediums is undeniable. But let’s not lie to ourselves; only a few people liked to read. Anything that requires deep concentration often needs incentives or real consequences to make it more compelling.

The only way out of this is elimination of the medium itself.

You wouldn’t want a cocaine addict to carry a bag of cocaine in his pocket. But this is what’s happening to us all.