Sunday, October 2, 2011

The State of things

At a New Yorker event, Lorrie Moore tries to explain, off the cuff, why "reading is vital." A video gets posted to Youtube. And fuckheads respond. should I be surprised? No. Should I avoid anything in this universe labelled "Comments"? Yes. Still.


    Someone get this woman a ballcap STAT!
    --Horathgar42

    i disagree. i read a plethoric amount of a wide variety of information for free on the internet...current events, things i'm interested in, articles and essays on a range of topics...and then i can not only loan that information out to one person at a time, like a book, but with my entire social network. print media is becoming obsolete, and i have no qualms about it.
    --ladicius

    Why read a book? Because she is a writer. Herp Derp.
    --Saktoth

    she is totally right reading is vital. i almost wanted my kids to grow up illiterate but now i changed my mind thanks to her. math sucks. also she is a bit ugly. just saying. reading is good. bad books suck why read, i understand. i don't know. how is this intellectually stimulating?? what?
    --666ymodelworship666

    For sm1 who's trying to promote reading, she sure isn't engaging.
    Speed up woman!
    --VivekRajcoomar

    Im sorry, but somebody who previously doesn't like to read is supposed to after watching this boring monotone woman talk about how awesome it is? I think Lorrie Moore gives people more of a reason not to, and I personally think reading is great but it certainly hasn't helped this woman become a vibrant literary role model...
    --kevigard

    math is more important than reading!!!
    --FOBmzunguREPTILICUS

    As if an author is NOT going to promote the reading of books.
    --Andybaby

    There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
    --JinxOz  2

    @JinxOz
    thats brilliant
    --dudesonman4200

    @dudesonman4200 :)!
    --JinxOz

    That's the most painful headache I've ever seen.
    --isocrate27

    The 12 people who disliked this video can't read
    --TheTruth006  3

    Lorrie Moore is probably the most effective argument AGAINST reading I've ever seen...
    --tabber87

    Books are great and will always be of importance in society. But to disregard the other forms of media is shortsighted.
   --DollfieFace

    @DollfieFace, very true that all forms of media are valuable but merely being capable of "consuming" multiple forms of media isn't enough, individuals should be versed in the art and the mechanics of "producing" various forms of media, reading without the ability to write is impotent, being taught while not being able to teach another is impotent, etc... Just as the proliferation/mainstreaming of porn has simply led to an increase in solitary masturbation, mere access to books...
    --jtatsiue

    @DollfieFace... won't spark innovation, progress, etc... unless it inspires new authors, new ideas and solutions to problems, print is dead otherwise.
    --jtatsiue

    shes a stage noob learn to dig the pain of the cooking of ur retinas by asshole light techs
    --koouumar
    
capotes, 'other voices, other rooms,' .........thats why reading is vital!
    --nothinbutgreenlights

    what?? i think she was stoned out of her mind
    --diablossmirk  2

    Someone should tell her that she doesn't have to salute the whole time; just when the officer walks into the room.
    --imager777  44

    @imager777 It looks like she's talking to somebody in the audience. She's probably just trying to keep the stage light out of her eyes.
    --rocketdogmedia

    @imager777 she's not saluting..she's covering a zit! 
--mytv80
 
    @imager777 She doesn't mean to. Some ass hole put glue on her forehead.
    --Martyj2009

    @imager777 ...hehe
    --FOBmzunguREPTILICUS

    replace books with podcasts or video lecture.
    how do podcasts not meet her criteria but have the additional feature of high information bandwidth and zero intonation loss.
    texts place is in the comments section.
    --vincenmt

    @vincenmt reading a book requires a focus and spurs imagination in a complex way that vegetating on audio or video lack, that's part of the "intimacy" she was talking about. i understand that most people have a problem with the effort it takes to read a good sized book, but the payoff is worth it.
    --desirefirst  11

    @desirefirst
    Well said.
    --ArtLoversStudio18

    @desirefirst I advise picking up the Culture series, if the individual is mature enough to handle the content; I think the smallest book in the series is eight hundred pages.
    Then there's the Legend of Drizzt the complete collection, by R.A. Salvatore; that entire collection is golden. Book one looks to be around 1600 pages.
    Just a quick glance at some of the books I have. Can you imagine how much you'd miss, if such literature were on video format? It'd be like watching Lord of the Rings. ^_^
    --GodofCider 



2 comments:

Unknown said...

Comments can soetimes bring out the worst in people

Unknown said...

Comments can sometimes bring out the worst in people