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On 12/22/2024 12:46 PM, ltlee1 wrote:
> The author had produced a perfect cassette:
> 
> "There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the
> detriment of understanding.
> 
> One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have
> mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though
> this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and
> views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of
> our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of
> magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements—all the way
> from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics—to
> make it easy for him to “make up his own mind” with the minimum of
> difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively
> that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at
> all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like
> inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and
> “plays back” the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has
> performed acceptably without having had to think." (How to Read a Book,
> 2nd Edition)


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