Dystopian Fiction: How Reading Transforms Your Mind

1984 and Brave New World. Together, these novels paint a full picture of how human beings are susceptible to the tactics of totalitarian regimes. They also show how art is a vital protection against any system of control, as it enhances a societies ability to empathize. -yt
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TL;DW! I jest, I jest! I remember I used to read metric (yes, METRIC) tons of books during my formative years. Novels, fiction, non-fiction, comics... I read Times & Maclean's (Canadian equivalent of Times) magazines front-to-back... like over 90% of all articles every week. But high-speed internet & smartphone happened then I don't read prints very much anymore. Still read/watch news too much though, but it's now more depressing than educational with the stuff I read online. The journalistic standard is way down.
Much harder to find really enlightening long-form reporting these days.

Fairbssays...

Vice News has pretty in depth reporting

Matt Tabibi Rolling Stone Articles

Seth Myers and Jon Oliver

cloudballoonsaid:

TL;DW! I jest, I jest! I remember I used to read metric (yes, METRIC) tons of books during my formative years. Novels, fiction, non-fiction, comics... I read Times & Maclean's (Canadian equivalent of Times) magazines front-to-back... like over 90% of all articles every week. But high-speed internet & smartphone happened then I don't read prints very much anymore. Still read/watch news too much though, but it's now more depressing than educational with the stuff I read online. The journalistic standard is way down.
Much harder to find really enlightening long-form reporting these days.

cloudballoonsays...

I recommend to all my friends to watch Vice.

Talk shows, I subscribed to Oliver, Myers, Noah & Colbert. Quite happy Colbert didn't lose his chop when he moved to CBS. I hardly ever LOL when Letterman hosted, just a few chuckles perhaps, so TLS is a vast improvement when Colbert took over.

Fairbssaid:

Vice News has pretty in depth reporting

Matt Tabibi Rolling Stone Articles

Seth Myers and Jon Oliver

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