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Originally Posted by Ankh
That's not it. It is scary to think that you (as a representative of that school of thought) are a minority, and, according to my interpretation of Kaufman's article, destined for extinction, few generations from now.
Mind, my interpretation, what I got as an essence under all that verbal pyrotechnic that he used to gain attention.
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To me, it seemed like he cared not about the content, but rather the form, and how it is cared for now. The loss of book stores, and things of that nature. If that was not the case, why would he talk about how the brainwashed carry around kindles full of books? Everything I read, was that he cared so strongly for the form. He referred to classics that had been transfered to digital as now being soulless. The identity of something is more than just the appearance.
Now, I do worry about quality of text dropping. In our times, we've seen more of a push towards the mindless. Fewer people read, and even language skills are dropping compared with those of our parent's and grandparent's generation. So many just switched to watching TV, and look at so much of the content now available there. Not nearly as cerebral, as even that of 10 or 20 years ago. Some of my higher level classes at my university have people in them that can barely spell. When they spell words like "olryt", on things for school, it is scary. With that sort of thing is becoming more and more common, the base number of which good writers can come from is shrinking, for if people are having issues grappling with basic linguistic skills, are they capable of creating intelligent or captivating plots?