The Long-Lost Science of Reading
Here is something you probably never thought you'd be thinking about today.
In porno stores, when you make a purchase, they offer you a free "magazine", which is actually just a catalogue of movies and "marital aids". 80% of the people offered these magazines turn it down, under the auspices that they prefer the moving image.
Uh, ok, people. We're talking about a book that is ONLY pictures, and is free. Its not like they ask you to choose between Pravda and Jugs.
This, to me, is kind of alarming. For some reason, I think our society is pushing back from intelligence and reading. Remember when intelligence became really hot in the 80s? Everybody wanted to be Matthew Broderick in War Games, or Val Kilmer in Pure Genius, or, god forbid, Doogie Howser. The 90s saw people like Janeane Garafaolo and Matt Lauer and a hundred other stars who were as smart as they were pretty (I will one day have Garafaolo's baby).
What's becoming popular now? NASCAR. Shows, on the Discovery Channel admittedly, but about morons working on cars. Wrestling.
It also doesn't help that the highest levels of our government are encouraging us to dispute science. Thats GREAT! I agree. If ANYTHING, we have come too far as a society. Time to take a step back, and put more of our kids minds into the hands of a 6000 year old book, not, god forbid, ANYTHING WE'VE LEARNED SINCE THEN. Bring on the Dark Ages!
I, for one, am going to stick with smarts. The chicks will always be hotter, and I'll feel better about myself in the morning.
2 Comments:
the future of Texas, anyways.
8/23/2005 09:22:00 AM
I want to have Janeane's baby too. Let's just say I think she is awesome. Yeah, it's sad to see the state of our State going down.
8/23/2005 11:28:00 AM
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