tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post3295906110081606447..comments2023-12-22T10:17:24.280-05:00Comments on Bookpuddle: Splash du Jour: MondayCiprianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00254338542624853230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-80732904303724858992008-07-11T00:36:00.000-04:002008-07-11T00:36:00.000-04:00The only proviso I would add to your comment, Meri...The only proviso I would add to your comment, Merisi, is with regard to your use of the term <B>"every now and then."</B><BR/>See... "every now and then" is not so much the issue being discussed here.<BR/>There are people who play nineteen hours of any twenty-four, in front of video games, and their "studying" becomes the "every now and then" part of their lives, and they are lucky if they spend 10 minutes a day concentrating on anything other than pseudo-killing aliens or other human beings on one screen or another.<BR/><B>There is nothing more addictive than intellectual laziness. And nothing more seductive, in this regard, than the substitution of visual-reality, in one form or another.</B>Ciprianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00254338542624853230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-45390183578526405022008-07-08T10:53:00.000-04:002008-07-08T10:53:00.000-04:00I do not share George Will's pessimistic view. Tha...I do not share George Will's pessimistic view. Thank heaven, I know enough young people who study and work hard, and manage to have fun, even if it is a computer game every now and then. When Gutenberg started printing books, the George Wills of the time were worried about the conseqences of the common man having access to books.Merisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16781937797213521146noreply@blogger.com