i more meant mythical thinking proliferation, stuff happens just so and if it didn’t - never happened, is much easier to pull off orally than in a book, book is unchangeable, oral is transitory. peasant mindset (at least as popularly portrayed).

i’m more ambivalent on the books as a whole, i do find joy in reading them, both fiction and not, but i can sympathize that (some) people just can’t learn from them as well. Although shooting down your own attention span intentionally via tiktok doesn’t seem prudent, and i would like for people to read more, i know i can’t force kids not to have phones, if it’s not society wide.