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Society itself is trying to make us more machine-like, and it bends the practice of writing to that end. If you want to write well, you have to read a lot of g
by caconym_ 6y ago
Society itself is trying to make us more machine-like, and it bends the practice of writing to that end.
If you want to write well, you have to read a lot of good writing, preferably starting at a young age. But if all you're trying to write is legible work email, or cookie-cutter marketing copy, or whatever, an electronic nanny can probably get you across the finish line.
- wcarey 6y agoQuite so. I suppose I lament the idea that you can become a good writer whilst shortcutting reading a large corpus of good literature. There are many ancillary benefits to reading good literature, and losing them makes education as formation that much harder. It's a much more important example of the phenomenon that children who are glued to phones or movies on long car trips instead of playing the license plate game are missing out on some implicit geographical education.