Re:Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
by sandworm101 on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:28PM
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>> I think that has huge consequences on human behavior.
They once said that about reading. The invention of the printing press made books cheap. Suddenly everyone was learning to read. They spent time with their noses in books rather than knitting sweaters, toiling in the fields or praying. Then it was TV. Then the internet. Then social media. There is always a new medium that threatens to "change behavior" to the detriment of society. Somehow we have muddled through.
They once said that about reading. The invention of the printing press made books cheap. Suddenly everyone was learning to read. They spent time with their noses in books rather than knitting sweaters, toiling in the fields or praying. Then it was TV. Then the internet. Then social media. There is always a new medium that threatens to "change behavior" to the detriment of society. Somehow we have muddled through.