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My mother objected to me spending too much time reading and not enough outside. I imagine there were people in the stone age that objected to people wasting to
by riffraff 8y ago
My mother objected to me spending too much time reading and not enough outside.
I imagine there were people in the stone age that objected to people wasting too much time near the fire and not enough fighting with sabertooth tigers.
- heronymus 8y agoExactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv". Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen. Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike).. ..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )
- wpietri 8y agoIt's an interesting thought! If you had a Twitter account in your bio, I would have followed it.
- criddell 8y agoI don't think a parent encouraging their kid to have a little balance in their life is necessarily a bad thing.