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>expecting me to read shit
>"… the key to Common Sense is the elegance of its argument, the way it balances polemic and persuasion, addressing those on both sides of the independence issue, always careful to seek common ground. Yet equally important is the speed and fragmentation of our public conversation, which quickly moved along to Swift Boats and other issues, leaving [Michael] Moore behind. By November, Fahrenheit 9/11 was little more than an afterthought, and six years later, if we remember it at all, it’s as a dated artifact, a project whose shelf life did not even last as long as the election it sought to change.
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>''"This, in an elliptical way, is what Noah [who asserted literature is dead] was getting at. How do things stick to us in a culture where information and ideas are up so quickly that we have no time to assess one before another takes its place? How does reading maintain its hold on our imagination, or is that question even worth asking anymore?"
>give me the takeaway because the intro just seems pretentious and dull
>“This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore.”
Basically, reading is too boring for kids today, so no one does it, so the artform is "dead". The author just accepts this, sighs, and writes an essay of his son's bleating.
>implying one kid and his friends are indicative of an entire demographic
>turning an argument with your son into a high-brow literary essay
what a pretentious wanker.
This wasn't even worth my scanning-read.
