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> LeVar Burton can read a book better than me, and I am not ashamed to admit it. This is a weird comment. He’s a professional actor. I hope he does

aspenmayer 1y ago
He makes the hard thing look easy. This wasn’t a backhanded compliment but a genuine one. He isn’t acting per se, but he does voice act the stories. It was audiobooks and ASMR sorta before those things were cool. He does a fantastic job with the words on the page and also goes on-site to film IRL things from the books. It’s a simple premise and it works. It doesn’t have to be surprising to be enjoyable and engaging.
- pfannkuchen 1y ago
  Why are you looking for a hyper stimulus? Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family. If child requires hyper stimulus to be engaged in this area, suspect other hyper stimulus present.
  - aspenmayer 1y ago
    > Why are you looking for a hyper stimulus? Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family. > If child requires hyper stimulus to be engaged in this area, suspect other hyper stimulus present. Reading Rainbow is the opposite of a hyperstimulus compared to most tv programs, let alone “educational” tv programming. I wasn’t seeking a hyperstimulus. You don’t even know me. I could read and write before kindergarten, which was my first schooling outside the home.
    - pfannkuchen 1y ago
      > compared to most tv programs Modern media is so replete with hyper stimuli that it is often hard to see where the line is between what is evolutionarily congruent and what is greater. I don’t see how knowing you is relevant. This is my position on what most people do. Either you have a different viewpoint on this than the mainstream and yet arrived at the very same conclusions, or I essentially am familiar with your viewpoint in this area. What have I gotten wrong?
  - eclecticfrank 1y ago
    > Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family. The stories we grew up to were indeed those which won "a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability". Only interesting stories got retold. Stories travelled further when made into songs. They became artworks when tranformed into plays. They became myths and legends in the luggage of those travelling the planet. And the art of telling stories also became a way of making a living much before our contemporary society produced the first pop star.
thaumasiotes 1y ago
I would expect being a professional storyteller to translate a lot better to reading aloud than being a professional actor, really.

aspenmayer 1y ago

He makes the hard thing look easy. This wasn’t a backhanded compliment but a genuine one. He isn’t acting per se, but he does voice act the stories. It was audiobooks and ASMR sorta before those things were cool. He does a fantastic job with the words on the page and also goes on-site to film IRL things from the books. It’s a simple premise and it works. It doesn’t have to be surprising to be enjoyable and engaging.

pfannkuchen 1y ago
Why are you looking for a hyper stimulus? Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family. If child requires hyper stimulus to be engaged in this area, suspect other hyper stimulus present.
- aspenmayer 1y ago
  > Why are you looking for a hyper stimulus? Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family. > If child requires hyper stimulus to be engaged in this area, suspect other hyper stimulus present. Reading Rainbow is the opposite of a hyperstimulus compared to most tv programs, let alone “educational” tv programming. I wasn’t seeking a hyperstimulus. You don’t even know me. I could read and write before kindergarten, which was my first schooling outside the home.
  - pfannkuchen 1y ago
    > compared to most tv programs Modern media is so replete with hyper stimuli that it is often hard to see where the line is between what is evolutionarily congruent and what is greater. I don’t see how knowing you is relevant. This is my position on what most people do. Either you have a different viewpoint on this than the mainstream and yet arrived at the very same conclusions, or I essentially am familiar with your viewpoint in this area. What have I gotten wrong?
- eclecticfrank 1y ago
  > Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family. The stories we grew up to were indeed those which won "a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability". Only interesting stories got retold. Stories travelled further when made into songs. They became artworks when tranformed into plays. They became myths and legends in the luggage of those travelling the planet. And the art of telling stories also became a way of making a living much before our contemporary society produced the first pop star.

thaumasiotes 1y ago

I would expect being a professional storyteller to translate a lot better to reading aloud than being a professional actor, really.