Quote of the Week: Reading as Freedom
In many ways [our] new visual culture is pleasurable, but it is a tyrant. Literature, on the other hand, is democratic. One can pause and put a book down and debate with the author. One can take it up later, after there has been time to think or do some research. The reader's imagination can select what it wishes to focus on, whereas in electronic visual media the mind is pummeled with powerful stimuli that bypass conscious and subconscious defenses.
1 comment:
He expresses here what I've always intuitively felt (especially where children are concerned) but couldn't
articulate for myself.
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