03-23-2017, 03:42 PM
All in all, we depend too much upon gadgets for guidance and entertainment. At best they are surrogates. Maybe you can't afford to attend the World Series or the coronation of a reigning monarch. So if I put a Nook in a remaindered book that I have carved out to accommodate , I might still have a genuine physical book that I would never read (let us say Rush Limboor) protecting a real treasure that I can read (let us say Dostoevsky). But in such a case it is the words that matter.
Ask yourself about the peak experiences of your life. Was a television present?
Ask yourself about the peak experiences of your life. Was a television present?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.