(02-08-2019, 08:35 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(02-07-2019, 05:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(02-07-2019, 09:47 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: Today, ppl can read all the classics on the web... definitely better than what you have to read in school... why don't more ppl do so?
Of course, to get the most out of them one needs to discuss them with others reading them.
Thinking and pondering about them should suffice - in theory, but in practice many people can't, so they need to discuss with others (so someone else can do the thinking).
Or at least compare experiences, which is part of any educational experience (even a traveler's tale). But simply reading -- who would know whether one got to read anything?
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.