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It is definitely self-masturbatory for me to keep reading new entries in this topic: The Decline of Reading.
But it's usually good work, and it is a very important topic.
— Sep 26, 2026 12:39PM
But it's usually good work, and it is a very important topic.
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Thomas
is on page 82 of 208
The technology of the 90s and 2000s is so fascinating to me, born in 2004, because it had that awe that "present advances" such as AI LLMs and content slop just give the opposite impression.
We can go back to 2021/22 before AI took over everything. We can go back to 2007 before the smartphone. Or we can go back to the 80s, the 50s, to the golden age - the early 20th century of literate culture.
— Sep 28, 2026 09:07AM
We can go back to 2021/22 before AI took over everything. We can go back to 2007 before the smartphone. Or we can go back to the 80s, the 50s, to the golden age - the early 20th century of literate culture.
Thomas
is on page 55 of 208
I say we bring back teaching about the 'History of Western Intellectual Culture' with an emphasis on its effect on gender and racial minorities, and the beautiful world of the early 20th working class.
My only gripe is that the erotic poems of the 18th century *are* just as important as Kant or Montaigne. Not intellectually, ha ha but historically. Literature has always been home to porn. Important historical fact!
— Sep 27, 2026 12:05PM
My only gripe is that the erotic poems of the 18th century *are* just as important as Kant or Montaigne. Not intellectually, ha ha but historically. Literature has always been home to porn. Important historical fact!