I get that there are benefits to reading and all but what I find weird is the idea that no matter what you are reading, as long as you are reading, is a better use of your time than documentary on the same subject or playing a game?
Why? What does reading have that makes it much better? And is it really better no matter the content?
As someone who used to read a lot, many books I’ve read have been erased from my brain the same way I have with movies, and I don’t really see a difference
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A lot of this is a fairly traditional view from the early days of TV. At this point it was seen that books taught you to read and understand, and helped develop the imagination as you had to interpret the writing into the picture in your head.
The TV was seen as lazy, as you could just lay down and watch, having everything shown and displayed for you with no input or effort on the part of the user.
Then again, once upon a time reading was often seen as a strange thing to be doing – wasting time sitting still and reading stories when you could be outdoors being active and socialising instead…
Video games sit in the middle of everything – you lose the active part, but you can gain benefits in coordination and problem solving skills, reading, socialisation and more.
Most importantly, I think most of the complaints about all of these just come from people who don’t understand them and want to think their hobbies are better…
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