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For many, literature has become alien, intimidating, illegible, rather than a tradition that gives their lives meaning. The general sense is that reading is a waste of time, obscure, difficult, and pointless, a hobby comparable to coin collecting or historical battle reenactment. Reading is not treated as a path to liberty. It is treated as a chore we will be liberated from once AI does our reading for us.
What is driving the decline of reading? It may not be what you think.
Read the story, from To Go On Living, out this week.. Zarginants Atanes wakes up at the crack of dawn. The first thing he does is lean awkwardly over...
Continue ReadingWhen he finds the prison library inadequate, an inmate takes matters into his own hands.. In the United States, libraries outnumber McDonald’s...
Continue ReadingThe apple’s rich culinary and genetic diversity is endangered, but all is not lost.. Though the apple is world renowned, perhaps less well known is...
Continue ReadingI was trying to understand the difference between Christianity and a pyramid scheme.. As far as I had been able to gather from my Southern Baptist...
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