Hey, I just got out of the HS rat-race several years ago. I know all about the depression that entails. (granted it's a rat race I entered myself... but for the gifted kids it's like 100 or 0)
No, that's cool. It's clearly a subject that elicits strong opinions, especially from writers! Yeah, though, that's exactly it - consider what's being read. Double with reading for points commodifies reading. I think what does come close to the automobile ads and cereal boxes = Reader's Digest. My best friend's parents kept a stock of them in their bathroom (fittingly) and that magazine has got to be the most mind-drudgy stuff out there. It's like a twitter version of Chicken Soup for the Soul, written by a traveling Bible salesman.
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No, that's cool. It's clearly a subject that elicits strong opinions, especially from writers! Yeah, though, that's exactly it - consider what's being read. Double with reading for points commodifies reading. I think what does come close to the automobile ads and cereal boxes = Reader's Digest. My best friend's parents kept a stock of them in their bathroom (fittingly) and that magazine has got to be the most mind-drudgy stuff out there. It's like a twitter version of Chicken Soup for the Soul, written by a traveling Bible salesman.