Behold the Future of Literature
Oct. 30th, 2003 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianGot this little gem from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sclerotic_rings, and I'm frankly ... well, not stunned, because that would imply 'surprise'. (I'm groping for words, people; this is bad.)
I'm appalled. That's the word.
When I was chibi, they encouraged reading. There was that whole "J'aime Lire" thing -- you were rewarded (to a point) for reading a lot. They were trying to pull kids away from the TV lest it rot their brains. Which is good, particularly given the sheer worthlessness of most TV at the moment.
And now this. "Hogwarts Headaches". Kids say, "It's okay; I'll take some paracetamol and finish this book because I have just discovered I like reading", and people issue health warnings. It's been determined now that excessive reading is unsafe. Never mind that a mid-level eyestrain headache hurts a lot less than, oh, say having to compete with somebody who read as a child and now has a vocabulary level three times higher than yours for a job.
Watch; next thing will be parents taking the books off their children and saying, "You can't read that! It's bad for your eyes! Here; watch the DVD instead!"
If this shit keeps up, I'm going to be out a dream-job.
Thess
sclerotic_rings, and I'm frankly ... well, not stunned, because that would imply 'surprise'. (I'm groping for words, people; this is bad.)I'm appalled. That's the word.
When I was chibi, they encouraged reading. There was that whole "J'aime Lire" thing -- you were rewarded (to a point) for reading a lot. They were trying to pull kids away from the TV lest it rot their brains. Which is good, particularly given the sheer worthlessness of most TV at the moment.
And now this. "Hogwarts Headaches". Kids say, "It's okay; I'll take some paracetamol and finish this book because I have just discovered I like reading", and people issue health warnings. It's been determined now that excessive reading is unsafe. Never mind that a mid-level eyestrain headache hurts a lot less than, oh, say having to compete with somebody who read as a child and now has a vocabulary level three times higher than yours for a job.
Watch; next thing will be parents taking the books off their children and saying, "You can't read that! It's bad for your eyes! Here; watch the DVD instead!"
If this shit keeps up, I'm going to be out a dream-job.
Thess
