Not a lot of TV, movies, books, magazines, texting or any of that for me. I have active hobbies (creating music, woodcarving, landscaping) and I enjoy those more than any passive activity.
--- In [email protected], Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote: > > > > > > > ________________________________ > <whynotnow7@...> > > > Actually I have read prodigiously all of my life. It is only in the last ten > years or so that I have largely lost interest in books, preferring direct > experience over words. More power to you if you enjoy them. > Did someone ask you if you watch much TV or go to the movies often? If you > do, > wouldn't that make you as big a consumer of writing as the rest of us, except > that you've decided join the large group of non readers that think the > written > word is "dead as disco" and images are the only thing that explain anything. > My > problem with this hypothesis is that most people have no clue how to "show, > don't tell" which means they run the risk turning into a tribe of mumblers. > BTW, > do you text much? >
