Rick_101 t1_j5uiv1j wrote on January 25, 2023 at 5:42 PM

Reply to comment by mikarala in The People Who Don’t Read Books by scolfin

Well, I get your points, and every sentence could be made into an essay. And they have been discussed vastly, my argument is that there are valid points on both sides, this dialogue has been brought up many times, dialectics will take place and a middle ground will be either enforced or agreed. Intellectualism and pragmatism are valid, necessary and full of friction.

JoyfullyDepressive t1_j5v94n9 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 8:22 PM

It’s not a matter of being verbose for the sake of it, it’s that some thing either cannot or should not be condensed. Reading the CliffsNotes is not the same as reading the novel. “A Brief History of Time” cannot be a six paragraph summarization and still make sense.