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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
Having to watch and listen instead of read the intro here was very tedious. As a medium, video is expensive and fragile, hard to reference and easy to abuse with content that bypasses the critical faculties.
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LOL! Yep, and amen. I have ADD
bad, which really isn't a deficit. I can speed read at a pretty good rate, and always have good comprehension. But listening to somebody read an argument to me is
PAINFUL!!!
When I read (being ADD and capable of having, oh, 20 or 100 trains of thought running at the same time, I can be building better arguments for and constructing arguments against, all at the same time as I read. As a mathematician, I'm usually also reformatting the argument I'm reading into informal boolean"ish" syllogisms. Makes it easier to argue for or against.
But when some clown is reading it to me, I can't pick out the important words, discard the rest, and get on with it. I'm stuck hearing EVERY WORD, most of which are unimportant.
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See Jerry Mander's book "Four arguments for the elimination of Television. I'm 61, and have never owned a TV until youtube appeared.
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Somebody else has read that book? Wow. Thought I was the only one. And yes, his arguments make even more sense today.
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