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Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, novels were regarded as the video games or TikTok of their age — shallow, addictive, and dangerous [0]

You can interpret that as either "there's always a moral panic about anything new" or (my own take) "this is how far we have fallen".

[0] https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-novels-will-destroy-you...

parent pmg101 3 months ago

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