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> but in the past it was work. I suggest that reading previously took the roll devices take today. When my parents weren’t at work they were reading as often a
by le-mark 3mo ago
> but in the past it was work.
I suggest that reading previously took the roll devices take today. When my parents weren’t at work they were reading as often as not; newspapers and novels.
- pmg101 3mo agoBack in the 18th and 19th centuries, novels were regarded as the video games or TikTok of their age — shallow, addictive, and dangerous [0] You can interpret that as either "there's always a moral panic about anything new" or (my own take) "this is how far we have fallen". [0] https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-novels-will-destroy-your-mind-796f3cdc8d5f https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-novels-will-destroy-you...
- bcjdjsndon 3mo agoIt's parental hysteria. Same as always.
- ramblenode 3mo agoThere may always be a moral panic but that doesn't mean every moral panic is equally misplaced. Most high school age children of the 1800s weren't inclined to read novels 12+ hours a day and neglect their sleep and hygiene to finish a few more chapters...