IMHO...

[flummoxed_me]

Books... I don’t get it. Why on earth do people still consider reading a valuable pastime? Not only is there no fun in reading, but it isn't valuable in the least. Everyone who reads for pleasure is wrong, just wrong. Whenever I get out of the house, I see great places like Starbucks, a great American tradition, tainted by the presence of books. Sometimes I even see a person reading at the same table as a person with a laptop computer. How can the educated computer person let this be? Doesn’t he see that his friend is ruining his mind? By sequestering himself with a novel, the reader is isolating himself from the world. How little he must know about current events. And how distanced he must be from his friends and family. If he were reading a website, he could be chatting with his classmate about the meaning of that simile, or reading the news to find out what just happened in far off Japan. I could go on; the wonders of the computer and the Internet are just too much!

I have heard, but luckily never witnessed myself, that there are places, HUGE places, whose sole purpose is to store books for people to come and read. How isolationist is that? How do these “readers” meet anyone? If you took away all of the friends that I have met through this lj and other forms of electronic communication, I would hardly know anyone. In fact, I’m pretty sure that I read a scientific study somewhere that said that people who spend more than 4 hours a day online are 67% more connected to the world around them. That sounds about right to me.

Anyway, I have to end this post because my TV show is about to start.