Television has not affected intelligence in any way, I'll wager. I think, on the whole, we've gotten smarter, if just by the collection of facts about the universe has grown significantly.
In any case, I recently read The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Richard Dawkins The God Delusion. Both very different works but somehow kind of familiar to one another, because they both deal with society, even though one is fiction, the other a collection of organized essays. I recommend both.
There's one.guido_jacobsJune 30 2009, 20:51:37 UTC
I hope you're right.
I second the recommendation, by the way. Also, I just ordered Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I'll let you know how it fares.
Well, I think I belong to the first group. I can't remember when, exactly; I have a stack of books that need reading, and I just haven't really had enough time to do it.
I read several things for recreation, though nothing new in the last several months, mostly rereading. I study societies on a local level as an outsider trying to not get kicked out, and on a inter-society perspective as an individual trying to figure out what the crap, man. Then again, my main tool for the second part is mainly through the mean of the internet, as travel is expensive and televised news (biased and otherwise) is blocked by relatives watching other shows at all hours.
My friend, there is no "otherwise", everything is biased to some extent.
Never give up who you really are to fit in. Sometimes society makes some really stupid decisions. Like using a product that's only purpose is to blacken your lungs and calms you down. As long as you have a steady supply of said product. Otherwise every little inconvenience means the end of the world to you and is an insult to everything you hold dear.
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In any case, I recently read The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Richard Dawkins The God Delusion. Both very different works but somehow kind of familiar to one another, because they both deal with society, even though one is fiction, the other a collection of organized essays. I recommend both.
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I second the recommendation, by the way. Also, I just ordered Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I'll let you know how it fares.
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I study societies on a local level as an outsider trying to not get kicked out, and on a inter-society perspective as an individual trying to figure out what the crap, man. Then again, my main tool for the second part is mainly through the mean of the internet, as travel is expensive and televised news (biased and otherwise) is blocked by relatives watching other shows at all hours.
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Never give up who you really are to fit in. Sometimes society makes some really stupid decisions. Like using a product that's only purpose is to blacken your lungs and calms you down. As long as you have a steady supply of said product. Otherwise every little inconvenience means the end of the world to you and is an insult to everything you hold dear.
But that's just an example.
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