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Back when they were pushing public literacy, reading books was disparaged as a morbid activity. (Sitting unmoving for a long time, staring...) But now everybod
by swayvil 2y ago
Back when they were pushing public literacy, reading books was disparaged as a morbid activity. (Sitting unmoving for a long time, staring...)
But now everybody does it.
- coldtea 2y ago>reading books was disparaged as a morbid activity. (Sitting unmoving for a long time, staring...) And for people that overdid it, it was. The modern sedentary lifestyle starting from that era's combo (office / clerical jobs + stationary entertainment with books and magazines, and later tv and radio). >But now everybody does it. Read books? Nah: If we count only fully-read books, the average American adult reads just over 5 books per year. (...) A less-than-ideal 46 percent finished zero books last year and 5 percent read just one.
- swayvil 2y agoSitting, staring, hours spent consuming symbolic narrative etc, describes some other popular activities that we might mention too, yknow.
- throw_pm23 2y agoless-than-ideal? You want more than half of people to read no books?
- suroot 2y agoThat doesn’t sound surprising in light of people setting obtuse goals like reading N books per week/month/year.