Dumbing down doesn’t mean “philosophy versus Call of Duty”. It just means what’s intuitive versus what takes conscious effort. Heck, Call of Duty could demand conscious effort.

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    1 year ago

    You can, but not in the moment. You have to pick up a different book to do that and most people don’t read more than one book concurrently. So you just put the book down and do something else.

    Whereas on the internet, you can very quickly flip to comment threads if you get tired of reading articles.

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      1 year ago

      You can do that when you’re reading with a tablet, eReader or Phone

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      1 year ago

      Yes I agree, that’s what too often happen to me. Plus I can read a phone without using any hands. But op talked about dumbing down the reading and if they meant the medium, well there’s lots of things you can read on the internet as well.