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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My two cents. It's the internet and easy access to mass media. We're really addicted to mass news media and the hysteria/drama it gives us. The phone give us too easy access to this and therefore makes it harder to consume slower paced but ultimately deeper works. Reading serious works just doesn't supply the drama/dopamine hits we can easily access through the internet.   [/quote]

Hmm. I think it’s the pandemic and politics, more than anything. It’s not an attention span issue if people are still reading. It’s the heaviness of the material. [/quote]

Yeah, this rings true for me. When I'm under stress, I want light. When I had a newborn and was sleep deprived, I couldn't even watch TV except for the Office.  During the pandemic, I was delighted when Ted Lasso came out, just because it was light.  Life has been stressful and uncertain. I don't see it getting better in terms of politics & climate and the everyday life of the average person.  But my own personal life stress may reduce enough that I can read a bit more broadly.  In the mean time, I'm cool with escapism reading.[/quote]

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