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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
I hear what you saying (speak quieter, can hear you from manila!). People seem to only care for the cost with no mind for value. Still, don't know how much can blame the modern consumer. It's the wal mart effect. We're trained to want the cheapest things possible, and we don't care how those things or where those things were made.We don't care what the environmental impact was in production, who was involved and the human cost. We just want it cheap and good. Books are now viewed the same way. Just another commodity. But isn't that what they have become. Books these days are made for for consumption, like a bag of potato chips. They should be fun, mindless, easily digestible, and shouldn't make us feel uncomfortable in any way. If it has a message its too preachy. Publishers and writers have been treating books like meaningless commodities for years, so you can't blame the consumer for agreeing with them
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ugh, it's sad how 1984-ish our world is becoming D:
i have to admit that sometimes i like an easy book once in a while, but i generally lean towards essays and travelogues. (i love to live vicariously through other people without the danger xD)
i guess people nowadays are too sensitive, too everything. well, most of it comes from history, i guess D: