Unlike the other categories, newspapers cannot be passively consumed. They require active participation in the form of reading, and in a society increasingly bordering on the functionally illiterate that spells doom. True, the internet presents opportunity for active participation, yet even at that the prevalence of video suggests a trend and preference for the passive. Is this a good thing or not a good thing remains an open question. One wonders, might Newton's first law of motion have a social dynamic corollary? A body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rest tends to stay at rest... With that, perhaps a partial explanation for the absence of substantial activism in this era?
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Unlike the other categories, newspapers cannot be passively consumed. They require active participation in the form of reading, and in a society increasingly bordering on the functionally illiterate that spells doom. True, the internet presents opportunity for active participation, yet even at that the prevalence of video suggests a trend and preference for the passive. Is this a good thing or not a good thing remains an open question. One wonders, might Newton's first law of motion have a social dynamic corollary? A body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rest tends to stay at rest...
With that, perhaps a partial explanation for the absence of substantial activism in this era?
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