Dumbing down doesn’t mean “philosophy versus Call of Duty”. It just means what’s intuitive versus what takes conscious effort. Heck, Call of Duty could demand conscious effort.
Dumbing down doesn’t mean “philosophy versus Call of Duty”. It just means what’s intuitive versus what takes conscious effort. Heck, Call of Duty could demand conscious effort.
You can, but not in the moment. You have to pick up a different book to do that and most people don’t read more than one book concurrently. So you just put the book down and do something else.
Whereas on the internet, you can very quickly flip to comment threads if you get tired of reading articles.
You can do that when you’re reading with a tablet, eReader or Phone
Yes I agree, that’s what too often happen to me. Plus I can read a phone without using any hands. But op talked about dumbing down the reading and if they meant the medium, well there’s lots of things you can read on the internet as well.
You are figuratively reading multiple “books” already. You don’t say “Well, no Gundam message boards for a few days because I want to go all in on this celebrity gossip blog”.
And same with books. I won’t read two large doorstopper novels at the same time. But I will generally have some pulp sci-fi or fantasy and then a non-fiction or technical book on my kindle. Which one I read depends on my mood. And it is a very rare occasion that I get confused if Nathan Garrett is about to Goku a bunch of white supremacists in a cabin or if he is about to discover a new kind of polymer.