The Problem of Short-Cut Learning: Why Extensive Travel and Life-Long Reading Should be Cultivated More in Society

The problem of alternative media is a false promise that dense subjects and information about our world can be swiftly downloaded into our brains. Travel and life-long reading provide antidotes.

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

-George Orwell

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