This article is devoted to the main fetish of all reading and writing people - the book. This short note will try to answer the question why the book was called a great miracle, moreover, why it still remains so. The history of the book as a cultural artifact will not be presented here. The topic is very interesting, but, unfortunately, inexhaustible, like Baikal, therefore, we restrict ourselves to an analysis of why the book was called a great miracle at present, and what important functions the book performs to this day.
Confrontation of the screen and books
Now the world is dominated by high technology. Accordingly, the speed of life is not the same as before. Everything fast is appreciated, therefore real, fundamental education is replaced by courses whose task is to give “only the main thing”, “necessary for practice”. Good has become the queen of reality. In such a world, the greatest miracle is that the book has yet to substantiate its right to exist. Why? Yes, because people value their time too much, and they consider reading a useless activity, because it does not bring instant results. You need to read a lot of books, spend a huge amount of time to reveal the ability to think in yourself. Everyone knows how to think, but not everyone knows about it.
The screen is to blame for everything, namely cinema and television.
Television, film and book
Television and movies kill the ability to think. Of course, there are great analytic programs or a wonderful “smart” movie, but few get to them. Television and cinema in their mass expression deceive the population and do it at a fantastic speed. It is unlikely that anyone will become smarter if he watches “Dom-2” or “Let They Speak” by Andrei Malakhov. True, these programs are watching:
1. Housewives, in whom the world is tense and revolves around three points: husband - child - kitchen.
2. People who turn on the TV, like a radio, for the background, their level of development may be different.
3. Uneducated pensioners.
Why was the book called a great miracle? Because this is a completely different way of exploring reality than television - a picture. When a person reads a book, he does not use ready-made recipes and images. Someone from the classics said that reading is also creativity. The author and writer create a work of art together. Each reader has his own version of the appearance of the characters in any classic literary masterpiece.
Reading / writing a book is meditation, contemplation of one’s inner world, this is the reason and reason to talk to yourself about yourself, the reason to think.
Of course, all this is true only in relation to good books, if a woman or a man reads literary consumer goods, then they are unlikely to rise above those who watch Dom-2. But the popular book still has one advantage over the popular broadcast: if you read well-advertised, but superficial authors, then the consumer, at least, will not forget the letter. He will be more literate that he cannot imagine life without a blue screen.
What is dangerous TV?
First of all, it is dangerous by brainwashing, as V. Pelevin said: “Nowadays, people learn about what they think on TV.” A television box turns a person into an embodiment of public opinion. From a consumer viewer, a herald is made, pronouncing the quintessence of the main social, political and economic trends, saying in any state of things: "Everything is for the best."
Next: watching commercials, not only does it turn a person into a controlled consumer of brands, but it also cuts the thinking into small parts. A person cannot think through a long thought. He thinks in videos and clips.
The book as an antidote to “clip thinking”
Now it’s clear why the book was called a great miracle. And even now you can subscribe to these words. The book saves humanity from mass idiocy. From turning into simple ruminants, which are only busy digesting, defecating and watching Malakhov and partners. Truly, only for this it is necessary to erect a monument to the book in every city or even in every yard of all cities. And cast in granite the phrase: "Book, the greatest wonders of the world together forever."