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Most of them now sit until bedtime watching TV, submitting every few minutes to a sales talk. The message of both the TV programs and the sales talks is that the watchers should spend whatever is necessary to be like everybody else.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Much as the internet has done today, the wide availability of written material both democratized the practice of reading and made it shallower, as the Renaissance gave birth to much greater numbers of readers and listeners with much less average capacity for critical engagement with the texts that they read, when compared with their learned, often noble predecessors.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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