Niklas Göke is young, a German grad student and prolific contributor to Medium. In this post, he addresses the importance of reading and the need to fight to read even when you enjoy it. Explaining his perspective on reading and its link to culture he writes,
Despite both the subjective and objective evidence, the demise of reading is not a very public issue. In the age of new media, it may not feel like it matters. But it does. Not just because a lack of reading leads to a devastating lack of culture, but because both are completely avoidable symptoms of an even bigger disease: the way we educate our children.
Source: Medium, May 19, 2018. Link.
Our human culture is inextricably linked to reading. Like physics, it’s an area of life we all participate in. There may be no importance to how much we read as individuals, but ultimately, there is. Because we don’t read to learn, or to laugh, or even to feel. “We read to know we’re not alone.” ― William Nicholson
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