When I closed the last page of Gibbon, it felt like saying good-bye to an old friend. The same with Tolstoy. But it's not just the medium. Lawrence of Arabia - the movie - is a regular visitor to my recollections. The Expanse similarly. Don't be fooled - books aren't inherently good, social media isn't inherently bad. This could be Austin, or it could be Twitter: "the asides are savage, and the social critiques are delivered in a flurry of bon mots." I did not feel elevated after reading Pride and Prejudice; if anything, I felt debased, as through I had spent time with an old gossip rag, or indulged in an evening with the algorithm. The problem with social media isn't that it's bad media, it's that so many on it do media so badly.
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