Mr. Daniel
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
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“The demise of writing matters, because writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. This is as true for professionals as it is for students… If reading and writing “rewired” the logic engine of the human brain, the decline of reading and writing are unwiring our cognitive superpower at the very moment that a greater machine appears to be on the horizon”
“Ironically, however, that very literature was once profoundly controversial. What we now call classic literature was the brainrot of its day — or at least many thought so.
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