How Books Help Us

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The place of literature in society is now becoming less and less prevalent. In years past, it was feared that radio could be the end of books, then it was considered that television would mean kids no longer read anything, and then the internet has come along and books have had a further decrease in popularity. While books are still being read, their popularity continues to become less, and new reading devices like the iPod and Kindle threaten to further lessen the numbers of people who like to read books, keeping them in shelving in their homes. While many think that the replacement of books with electronic products will mean more readers, ultimately it will damage the attention spans of an already media-saturated public, and lessen the amount of people who are reading substantial, interesting works of fiction and non-fiction. In this day and age, the number of people with wire shelving filled with books is at an all time low.

The amount of Americans who read books is very low, and the number who choose to read challenging books is even less than that. In this modern age, we’ve been encouraged to believe that everything that feels good is good, and if something is challenging or difficult, it should be rejected. The effect of this in the immediate term is that we’re having a lot more fun, but in the mid to long-term, we become reliant on these thrills and see them as all life has, instead of the deeper challenges that are out there waiting.

This can mainly be blamed on television, which has driven people away from the mental effort required from books, in imaging the characters and the activities they do. Even radio needed a part of the imagination to consider how the performers look and act, and how the sound effects might look. Today in most television shows, the goal is to leave as little as is possible to the imagination of the viewer. Not only in terms of the visual aspects, but in the area of character development. For a film or show to be made, characters must be easily defined as good or bad, and only make alterations to their character that can be easily understood by the viewer.

The issue with this is that it makes a false representation of life. When we see every day that there are characters on shows easily definable as good and evil, we begin to think this is the way life is, and forget that everyone at their heart has good intentions. If we’re tricked by the TV shows, it’s easy for us to be fooled by politicians telling us the world is packed with terrorists waiting to kill us, and that we should support the great troops in their quest to battle these evil forces.

In order to understand the world in a more subtle way, it’s probably worth looking beyond the superficial realities of TV and exploring the deeper worlds of books. While some books are equally as superficial as the worst television shows, it is well worth looking into quality writing that can go far more in-depth than any TV show would imagine.

Connor Sullivan recently purchased shelving online for a kitchen project he is working on. He also orderedwire shelving online to use in the basement for extra storage space

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