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In a sense. Of course, I tend to read books that have extensive end-notes, references, and bibliographies--which is still someone telling you--but is ALSO telling you where that information came from. You can go back to the original research, if you wish. Starts resembling fact, not opinion or entertainment, like the news.
It's a degree of depth and complexity that is missing form casual information sources.
[2 points]250 days ago by dauguyReplyEdited 250 days ago by dauguy
It also allows you to hear censored voices. For example, the right consistently refers to Obama as leftist, when he is actually centrist. Unless you read, you will never know that the political spectrum in this country is truncated, and entire groups of thought and practice deliberately marginalized and disappeared.
I've worked in a bookstore for years and got two degrees in reading old dead white guys. If I didn't like reading, I probably would have swallowed a bottle of Aspirin when I was 19.
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German books.
If you don't read, you only know what people tell you.
I do read, but to be fair, reading is 'what people tell you,' too.
In a sense. Of course, I tend to read books that have extensive end-notes, references, and bibliographies--which is still someone telling you--but is ALSO telling you where that information came from. You can go back to the original research, if you wish. Starts resembling fact, not opinion or entertainment, like the news.
It's a degree of depth and complexity that is missing form casual information sources.
You're preaching to the choir. So I will do the same. Don't confuse materials that list their sources with truth.
..but I think we're on the same side of the issue.
It also allows you to hear censored voices. For example, the right consistently refers to Obama as leftist, when he is actually centrist. Unless you read, you will never know that the political spectrum in this country is truncated, and entire groups of thought and practice deliberately marginalized and disappeared.
I've worked in a bookstore for years and got two degrees in reading old dead white guys. If I didn't like reading, I probably would have swallowed a bottle of Aspirin when I was 19.