Why was the book called a great miracle? The book as an antidote to "clip-art thinking."

This article is devoted to the main fetish of all reading and writing people - a book. This small 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, so we will limit ourselves to an analysis of why the book was called a great miracle at the moment, and what important functions the book performs so far.

The opposition of the screen and books

Now the world is dominated by high technology. Accordingly, the speed of life is not the same as before. All the fast is prized, so the present, fundamental education is replaced by courses whose task is to give "only the most important", "necessary for practice." Good has become the queen of reality. In such a world, the greatest miracle is that the book should justify its right to exist. Why? Yes, because people value their time too much, and they consider reading to be a useless occupation, for it does not bring instant results. You need to read a lot of books, spend a huge amount of time to discover in yourself the ability to think. Everyone knows how to think, but not everyone knows about it.

In all, the screen is guilty, namely cinema and television.

Television, cinema and book

Television and cinema kill the ability to think. Of course, there are excellent analytical programs or a wonderful "smart" movie, but few get to them. Television and cinema in their mass expression are fooling the population and do it with fantastic speed. It is unlikely that someone will become smarter if he watches "House-2" or "Let them say" Andrei Malakhov. True, these programs look:

1. Housewives, in whom the world is tense and revolves around three points: the husband - the child - the kitchen.

2. People who include a TV, like a radio, for the background, their level of development can be different.

3. Uneducated pensioners.

Why was the book called a great miracle? Because this is a completely different way of investigating 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 external appearance of characters in any classical literary masterpiece.

Reading / writing a book is meditation, contemplation of one's inner world, this is the reason and reason to talk to oneself about yourself, the reason to think.

Of course, all this is true only for good books, if a woman or a man reads literary consumer goods, then they hardly rise above those who watch "Dom-2". But the popular book still has one advantage over the popular transmission: if you read well-advertised, but superficial authors, then the consumer, at least, will not forget the letter. He will be more competent than that he does not think of life without a blue screen.

What is the danger of TV?

It is, first of all, dangerous brainwashing, as V. Pelevin said: "In our time people learn about what they think on TV." The teller makes a person into the personification of public opinion. From the viewer-consumer make the herald, uttering the quintessence of the basic social, political and economic tendencies, speaking at any state of things: "All for the better."

Next: watching commercials, not only that turns a person into a controlled consumer of brands, but also cuts thinking in small parts. A man can not think of a long thought. He thinks with clips and clips.

The book as an antidote to "clip-art thinking"

Now it is 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 ruminant animals, which are only busy with digesting, defecating and watching Malakhov and partners. Truly, only for this it is necessary to put a monument to a book in every city or even in every yard of all cities. And pour in the granite phrase: "The book, the greatest wonders of the world together forever."