Another coincidence! So simple. So black and white. A cartoon drawn by a child.

As long as you agree with the consensus more or less, and say nothing too novel, strange or controversial, you probably have nothing to worry about.

Yes, reading has an upside and also a downside. I can discuss both and everything in-between. I am a magical unicorn, relatively speaking.

Thank you. This is the kind of maturity and insight that I have come to expect on Lemmy.

Yes, reading is important and good. But here I am indicating a different aspect of it. Like many things in reality it has several aspects.

Nothing is an unalloyed good. That's reality for you.

We can discuss the good of reading and also the bad of it. Right?

Well it does tend to stick. So if you repeat it within that sticking period then yes, it becomes the normal permanent mode. And memory of any alternative is lost.

But sure, not necessarily permanent.

Whether you enter this state of "mental screen fixation" through personal preference or pressure from outside forces makes no difference in the state arrived at, surely.

I don't deny the utility of the shared symbolic thing, be it the precise scientific engineeringly version or the rough common version. It is quite beside my point.

My point is the way of looking that reading involves and the habit that we fall into. That fixation upon the little screen in my head where symbols play. To narrow my attention to that screen permanently is a kind of chronic crouch, and to mistake that screen for reality is insane.

For the sufferer of this disease all of the senses dim while the screen grows brighter and brighter.

Spreading the truth. (Because it's always the truth.)

You have met your sq quota

I appreciate your concern. But to your first point.

Intelligence is biased towards intelligent expression and interpretation. That limits it, in expression and perspective. Seeing through intelligence-colored glasses. Expressing though an intelligence-preferring filter.

But we are larger than our intelligence. And this larger form has its own expressions.

Though we, as individuals and a culture, are in the habit of ignoring this larger self. It exists. Like the invisible part of an iceberg underwater.