People used spend a higher portion of their income and free time to read books both in relative and absolute terms. This is true even when the account for longer working hours and lower income. This is my subjective take but in my opinion the content of then popular magazines or populist speeches were way more intricate compared to what we have today. The public was genuinely well read.What has caused this decline in reading and general literary?
Nothing complicated about it: TV and all forms of instant-transmitted Entertainment that came after are more entertaining. Simple as that. You could read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" for this perspective laid out for some 200 pages. Possibly also technopoly. It's alright, though it'll tell you nothing you didn't already know—the historic perspective it gives is interesting and not necessarily common knowledge, at least.
>>24831378>>24831390Man the thread which I mentioned Kittler got deleted.
