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I sometimes wonder about the negative effects of media (particularly literature) on my personal relationships. Minds in real life rarely measure up to what I fi
by thefaux 2y ago
I sometimes wonder about the negative effects of media (particularly literature) on my personal relationships. Minds in real life rarely measure up to what I find on the page. And yet I know that those words were the product of an embodied human and I wonder where they are.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoThey exist but are rare - with books you're generally looking at the best of all time that have undergone a very strong selection criteria bias. I think the shift from an intellectual elite culture to a more egalitarian culture has reduced the extent that such elites could be found in the same place and thus the likelihood of a very smart person meeting another very smart person is similarly greatly reduced.