Comment by xpct

8 days ago

Fair enough :-) Do you have a theory for why we view reading, even in terms of pleasure, as favorable? I imagine it's because we see some utility in it over other activities.

Reading causes your brain to hallucinate. Visualization is a muscle: reading is the weights at the gym.

Read good english, speak good english. Read dumb english, speak dumb english.

> we see some utility

So what utility do you see in Netflix? Or doomscrolling? Or whatever you do for pleasure?