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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a more educated population yet there's been a reduction in the reading level that seems to line up with the rise of social media. Some Tech guru (Dorsey?) said something about how we don't "need" War and Peace anymore, we can do it briefly with the new advances. In his day, Charles Dickens was massively popular among factory workers, but in today's much more educated population people say "it's too intellectual, 600 pages is too long" etc. Apparently we don't need great literature anymore because there's Twitter, Tiktok and ChatGPT. It's a strange phenomenon. [/quote] Dickens wasn't read 600 pp at a time. His writing was episodic, for weekly papers. They were read over long amounts of time. How do you not know this?[/quote]
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