I just finished reading Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death, which talks about some of the problems inherent in an image based culture (as opposed to a print based one). It was alarming to have laid out so clearly the ways in which our TV saturated society has reframed our entire epistemology over the last hundred years or so! Hopefully I'll post more on the book, but for now I just wanted to direct you to Tim Challies' recent post on the pleasures of reading, which was a great affirmation of the value of books after spending some time with a more negative critique of things.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
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Hi Jasie-
thanks for the link to Tom challie's article on reading. I loved it-sespecially the quote from Bob and the idea of a "celestial library' whick is a pretty pleasing vision of heaven. Can you imagine an eternity of learning new things with a mind that might actually comprehend and then REMEMBER the things you've read?
Hope you had a great day off yesterday. Love you much!
Mom
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