Exhibit A:
Five years ago, from NPR. Quite to the contrary, "In half a decade, the number of U.S. adults who are reading poetry has nearly doubled."
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/61838...results-reveal
In a sane, stable economy in which people are content where they are, this is not a problem. But in a tanking economy such as ours, rampant inflation, etc., (also where New York residents are fleeing the state by six-digit numbers), the shark surfaces in these businessmen. You know that old adage, "Kill the competition." The NYT article does just that -- calling it
dead.
J
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennifer Reeser
Those are fascinating, Max, thanks. Personally, I have always loved Occam's Razor -- "a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities."
Newspapers are big business. Poetry is competition, yes? While you are reading poetry, you are not reading newspapers. Money you spend on poetry is money you are not spending on journalism.
Hmm...
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