Thomas_More
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So Bijou, you do think the talk of war with Russia means there will be war between Europe and Russia soon?
And does Canada really think that it and Europe can militarily challenge Russia without US military backing? Or are they just awaiting a new US president, which is why we are being given the year 2030 as the kick off for WW3? (If they are really so stupid as to think capital accumulation can continue when the workers are all dead and all resources destroyed)?
They themselves in their bunkers will eventually run out of oxygen and food.
I had to work too, but I always took a book with me to read during breaks and lunchtime. Of course this could have its own problems, such as other workers grabbing my book and throwing it about the room, inserting porn magazine pictures in it when I wasn’t there, etc.
Their children are no doubt now among the chorus led by those announcing “the end of print.”The worst thing is to see rubbish skips outside libraries, full of books to be sent to the tip. They are replaced with computers.
Reading for pleasure is an idea that is alien to the “go for it” student, whose priority is to get the highest wage-slave price ticket in life he or she can.
Enjoying holding a book, musing, contemplating, reading it for pleasure is incomprehensible to an increasing number; and, once harnessed, most wage-slaves say they “don’t have the time.”
I still value my non-fiction books too, such as my beautiful books on cinema, and general, history. Some things thought to be true at the time they were published have been disproven since, but I still cherish the books; and cherish them more than a newly, poorly, printed updated textbook with photocopies in place of beautiful photos. I take the updated information on board but keep and love my “outdated” originals as part of me.
But then, I am not a student being made to read things for exams.
In Switzerland I tried to open a conversation with a student I saw reading a novel by Dickens. I asked him what he liked about it, and he replied “I don’t know. I’m reading it for an exam.” It was just information as far as he was concerned (and, unlike me, he probably passed!) Similarly, students here in England were popping bubbly cheap Champagne as they toppled out of the exam hall, one girl shouting, “GREAT! I’LL NEVER HAVE TO READ ANOTHER BOOK IN MY LIFE! YIPPEE!”
For them too, books were mere information.
