I remember seeing an article that quoted parents complaining about their children/teens spending large amounts of their time wasting it away... reading fictiona

I remember seeing an article that quoted parents complaining about their children/teens spending large amounts of their time wasting it away... reading fictional novels Very much the same tone as people that disparage children/teens spending time on video games. Edit: Found an example https://magazine.1000libraries.com/how-fiction-sparked-outrage-in-the-18th-century/ https://magazine.1000libraries.com/how-fiction-sparked-outra... > Critics of the time worried that people were slipping into a fantasy realm and losing their grip on reality. Novels were blamed for basically just about everything, from increasing promiscuity in young women to encouraging suicide and self-harm in young men. One of these critics, Vicesimus Knox, called for the banning of novels altogether, arguing that people should instead read “true histories.” An article in Gentleman’s Magazine put forward the idea of a “sin tax,” with the hopeful notion of dissuading people from wasting their time with frivolous fiction