You can brainwash yourself with some wild sh*t if you spend too long in the wrong heads/books.

"Go consume this form-factor because it's better" has always bothered me.

No doubt. However, I didn’t focus on any of that. It’s also not the premise of the article. The premise of the article is “don’t remain in your echo chamber, don’t trust just because it fits your narrative, step out and confront the world”.

Yeah. Just as an exhibit every radicalized leftist "reading theory". Whoo boy talk about epistemic closure.

What's weird about the kind of responses in this thread stating "books" or whatever "can also be bad so social media is no different" is that it's not as if we don't already have data about this. We have a lot of data on the outcomes of people that spend time reading books vs people glued to social media, regarding attention spans, etc. The proof is in the eating, we don't have to speculate about hypotheticals.