Why do you need pictures? Why do we need a graph or a pie chart? Why do we need a video, blog or newscaster to tell us what is happening in our world? What is wrong with good, old fashioned words?
Can we, as a people, no longer interpret the English language?
Is writing a dead art?
Do America’s children read any more? Wait, I think I answered my own question! Yes, they can read! At least for the length of a status update or tweet!
With every good book being made into a movie, you don’t need to read to have intelligent conversation about popular fiction, watch it instead! Why are we too lazy to take a little time and find the meaning in words ourselves?
On another note:
I have heard my generation referred to as the Potter-generation. Is that how we want to be known? I often wonder how many of my friends have read anything considered a classic. If you have read it, have you read it of your own choosing, or were you forced to in high school or some college lit class?
Have you read the bible? I haven’t all the way through, I have tried. I have read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows at least five times. How come I can read that work of fiction some many times, but can’t get myself to read the word of God?
As a visual oriented person (and as a biased artist.) idk. I like the visual stuff. Pie charts and etc.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you on the level of reading most people partake in. Most people under 15 can't even read Lord of the Rings, let alone a KJV. I think also most people are really really ADD. We live in a world full of stimulus going all the time from all angles and getting bored with something is really easy. As a designer we are taught to fear the end of the printing age as everything becomes electronic. :/ who knows what this means for the written word.