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Yup. There was a moral panic about fiction specifically in the early-to-mid 1800s. Kids (and women, too) were sitting around staring at these made-up stories in
by ertian 6y ago
Yup. There was a moral panic about fiction specifically in the early-to-mid 1800s. Kids (and women, too) were sitting around staring at these made-up stories instead of going out and doing real things.
- definetheword 6y agoPassingly comparable but a completely different scale
- evilduck 6y agoChess was no exception to moral outrage either: "We answer, chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while at the same time it affords no benefit whatsoever to the body" - Scientific American, circa 1859 https://books.google.com/books?id=90hGAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22a+pernicious+excitement+to+learn+and+play%22&pg=PA9&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=90hGAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22a+perni...