How does reading fiction make someone any better than people binging TV shows? There are high quality shows out there, you could put them face to face against novels considered classics desu.
>>25170486>How does reading fiction make someone any better than people binging TV shows?It doesn't, really. It depends on the media quality and I suspect the whole "reading books makes you smart" or "smart people read books" was made up by the publishing industry. Just look at all the women who read crap, they are consuming the book equipment of crap tv shows but in a different format.
There are some spectacular films. No one who watches stuff like The Grand Illusion, Ran and a Night to Remember, doesn't read.As for high quality tv shows, I have only found this in miniseries like John Adams. Again, someone who loves that stuff definately reads
>>25170486>high quality TV showsmight as well chase unicornshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pov0MKuyJfg
>>25170568>definatelyEvidently you're not a reader, one of the signal benefits of reading being orthographic.
>>25170486>reading fiction make someone any better than people binging TV showsIt depends on how you look at it.Obviously reading books doesn't make you better than anyone else, however there's a fundamental difference in how you usually approach the two. With TV shows you are often paying a subscription and you just check out this and that show randomly, ultimately it's just another way to kill off some time coupled with social pressure from peers/friends to fit in and feeling as a part of something, as well as advertisement playing a very big role in shaping what people actively watch.With books it's an enitrely different story, you will never see an advertisement that says "read the greeks man", reading in general is less popular than other activities so you are much less likely to casually meet people who actively read especially among adults, so the social aspect is also missing unless we talk about specific environments like college.>There are high quality showsSure and some of the best movies/shows are actually book adaptations, I often find myself checking out both out of pure curiosity and that's how I found some of my all time favourites.>you could put them face to face against novels considered classics desu.There's an argument to be made that books are simply a much older medium, the classics have successfully passed a selection filter for hundreds if not thousands of years. Despite the infinite accolades how many of those high quality shows will be remembered and considered for preservation in 10/20/50/100 years?
>>25170590Every writer writing extemporaneously made numerous spelling mistakes prior to autocorrect. Kafka's diaries are full of them and stylistically his German was very polished and formal
>>25170486A midwit from /TV/ wandered over here again...
>>25170486Paying attention to every detail is a good execise for the brain
>>25170782>feeling the brain needs exercise
>>25170486there is a much smaller amount of information than can be transferred from listening, tv shows aren't going to be giving you much to think about either.
>>25170494Quality agnostic, reading is better than television because it's not a screen based activity (and if you have an e-reader yes you are failing yourself). The screen messes up the human brain in too much quantity.
>>25170486>high quality showsname one. the wire is just greek tragedy modernized. succession is just king lear modernized. anime? NGE is existentialism 101 with a few arbitrary biblical allegorical symbols thrown in to look cool. it's all just reskins of shit novelists and poets and playwrights did better centuries ago.
>>25170486The Godfather, one of the most acclaimed movies ever, is based on pulp trash that its author most likely wrote on the shitter.Game of Thrones, arguably the most acclaimed tv show of all time, is based on genre trash that gets made fun of by most readers.>t-t-they're snobs and elitists!!And? You act as if you wouldn't make fun of a bookshelf like pic related.
>>25170494it depends on the book. obviously airport romance slop read by wine aunts and shitty sci-fi/fantasy mainly read by pimply teenagers addicted to overused tropes like muh dying dynasty empire is no different than popcorn flick blockbusters or netflix-core. but i've never seen a film or show that is as philosophically dense as war and peace or moby dick, that handles race relations and social critique as well as a book by james baldwin or william faulkner.
>>25171617>snobs and elitiststhis argument that they use always reeks of cope, i'm very suspicious of it. isn't that basically just ad hominem? not to mention cliques and subcultures like gamers (they have crossover with fantasy and mafia stories, look at the game narratives they consider "high art") by far have the most misplaced, misguided snobbery i've ever seen in my life. besides, i'd rather be a smug elitist with standards than a mindless drone that's easily impressed by some watered-down version of melville or hemmingway or whatever.
>>25170788it doesn't if you are okay wasting your life and precious free time with video games and anime
>>25170494>I suspect>I have a baseless assumption supported by poor reasoning and zero evidenceGo back.
>>25170486It doesn't but neither does most nonfiction. 90% of nonfiction reads like a 5th grader trying to reach the minimum number of pages assigned by a teacher (publisher) with filler sentences.
>>25171617Hey, he has Kazuo Ishiguro!It can't be like...Oh.He chose this book because it reminded him of slop, and he quoted it as slop.Oh well...
>>25171617Bookshelves where thee books don't even look like they've been read are disgusting.
