5 ms·

Personal experience: when I was a kid, I instinctively knew when a book tried to "teach" me something or instill some world view and I immediately know the inte

Personal experience: when I was a kid, I instinctively knew when a book tried to "teach" me something or instill some world view and I immediately know the intention and found that boring. The really exciting books were those that either didn't try to teach anything or those that didn't make it so obvious. Might it be that the contemporary literature for children is constantly trying to push an educational agenda and kids instinctively despise that (as I did)?

nottorp 2y ago
> when a book tried to "teach" me something or instill some world view and I immediately know the intention and found that boring Entertainment with a message is fucking boring no matter the form. Movies are no better in this respect. Unless they're done by a genius but then you won't even notice the message.