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Originally Posted by jimbomaybe
Perhaps insidious is too strong a word, and maybe not ,but being plugged in you are just passively receiving information with little effort on the part who is on the receiving end , a one way conversation that diminishes critical thinking of what is being presented. In a conversation one has at least a give and take interaction, it is much easer to influence someone with sound bites. Children in schools and as adults we get little information that is not presented as audio/visual. Reading on the other hand is requires one to process the information, it is something you do, you can reread parts, relate one sentence or paragraph to another, reading skills teach writing skills , organization of thoughts and logic. It is harder to sell BS when it written out. That I think is the real danger of being "plugged in"
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I think “insidious” is the perfect word, not too strong at all.
I read the
The Plug-In Drug when it was first published in the 1970s. I remember one of the points the author made was that television does most of the brainwork, unlike reading, which requires making pictures in the mind, more brain activity.
The other stuff you said is accurate, too.
Boomer