Don't all writers live in the shadow of Socrates' attack (as recorded by Plato) on writing anyway? After all, writing and the corresponding activity of reading

Don't all writers live in the shadow of Socrates' attack (as recorded by Plato) on writing anyway? After all, writing and the corresponding activity of reading diminish the skill of maintaining the Palace of the Mind. If he's responding to Plato, then he's on a well-tread path that nearly ever writer has come to or answered en passant for the last two millennia. Welcome to the club.