Not trying to be mean but if you’re majoring in the humanities & you can’t read 200 pages a week, and you feel the assignments are garbage, perhaps the humanities isn’t for you. Spend less time tweeting your disdain for books and I suspect you would find the time to read them.
Now that the courts ruled AI art cannot be copyrighted, now is a great time to remind everyone that using generative AI to write a book doesn't make you an author.
The tragedy of not reading is that your perspective is limited to the last five or ten years. And because we now have a whole nation of non-readers, discourse is doomed to repeat the same half-dozen arguments without end. Declining literacy has made life shallow, vapid & boring.
We’re facing an ever-worsening literacy crisis. Millions of brains have been scrambled by conspiracy theories & short-form videos. Curiosity is dying. Our collective intelligence is sinking into the gutter. The solution is to read. The solution is to read.
People are criticizing her for making this beautiful film diary. “Why not use letterboxd?” Some of you have been online so long you’ve forgotten there’s life outside of it. There’s joy in being extravagantly creative and doing analog things. Your lack of whimsy is a weakness.
Romance itself is dying because of illiteracy. When you read letters from the Civil War era, men were shockingly lyrical because they had heads full of poetry. Literacy fuels passion. Beauty, wisdom, empathy, passion are vanishing from the world because people don’t read.
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