Recent studies have shown that across the board, in all mediums, Americans are reading for pleasure but ever before. This isn't simply literature, novels, etc, this can be all varieties of the written word, together with magazines, even the mighty Internet. Yes, that features blogs. Less than one third of adults reported having read any literature within the past year not required for school or some other assignment.
Sounds stunning at 1st, but extremely, who didn't see this coming back?
In fact, those stats appear rather high to me. I suppose out of everybody I recognize, only 3 or 4 folks would contemplate themselves regular readers. Sitting down with a book has become a quaint, old-fashioned novelty notion, nearly an affectation, like smoking a pipe, collecting cigars, home brewing, bonsai trees, single malt scotch, and Civil War enthusiasm.
This is distressing to me, clearly, since 70%-eighty% of what I do with my life relies around writing, and therefore, by extension, reading. Am I training in an obsolete trade? Is my dream of becoming a successful writer kind of like my dream of changing into a successful blacksmith?
And, what specifically is causing this decline in literacy? The apparent answer is, not enough "Reading is FUN" posters in our libraries. How are individuals supposed to understand, if they're not told? I suppose if the statistics were examined you would notice a very clear link between the decline of Elijah Wood "Reading is Hobbit-Forming!" posters and the decline of Yank reading. But though this is often certainly a serious contributing issue, there must be others, because I've viewed my truthful share of professional-reading advertisements, and even I realize myself reading far less than I used to. What's happening? Let's take a peek at a few of the weather of modern society that are edging out the written word...
Television
Low price and easy production for reality shows that includes enticing, vapid automatons in crude parodies of life situations permits for vast explosion in quantity of TV shows, with each channel boasting dozens of similar shows, every with its own spinoffs, knockoffs, and webisodes, till total psychological saturation is achieved. All on the market brain space is crammed with the televised thoughts of attractive, vapid automatons.
Straight to Video Knockoff Films
Having already watched each different film in Blockbuster, people flip to low-budget, nearly-homemade films released to coincide with similarly named, similarly themed theatrical films, ie, Transformers / Transmorphers, Beowulf / Beowolf
Video Blogs (See YouTube)
Weary of ingesting the inane thoughts of strangers by reading them in written text kind, Americans turn to video blogs, or "Vlogs", where they'll listen to the inane thoughts of strangers while watching their faces from an uncomfortably close camera angle, and randomly assigning them celebrity standing by public whim.
Sports/Video Games
Competitive entertainments permit bored Americans to figure their reflexes and mental dexterity while not really doing anything, feel half of something without really being half of something. People flock to Sports/Video Games as an outlet for his or her personal energies and as a general mental anesthesia. Helps relieve pressure of disposable income and time.
Beowulf: the IMAX 3D Experience
CGI animated film hurls arrows, spears, axes, blood, guts, and naked Angelina Jolie directly at the viewers, completely blowing our minds and making us never wish to read, write, talk, or walk around ever again.
YouTube
Endless supply of videos where lightsabers are digitally placed in the hands of folks or animals who were not previously holding lightsabers.
There seems to be a trend here. As part of the general movement far from difficulty and towards ease and instant gratification, humanity looks to be trying to avoid even the troublesome senses. The recognition of video blogs shows that folks would a lot of rather have info poured into their brain through their ears than have to focus their eyes on letters and try to understand writing. Is the day too way off when even being attentive to information is taken into account an excessive amount of effort? Too dull, too slow?
Probably simply in time for the invention of direct-to-brain connections. Entertainment won't need us to use our senses at all. It can simply be dumped directly into our minds in a very big, sticky, informationy gob. A completely new type of blog can seem, not the net log, or the video log-the "brain log", or...."blog".
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