I'm sad, tho also not sure, about books becoming less important. They certainly are to some extent, except for escapism for reading nerds. Yet my computer game-playing sons are also reading books in PDF form. And much of what intellectuals talk about is based on books, along with their own authority to talk about it. "White Fragility", became fetched (?) because while it had been a phrase, it became an intellectual meme target from the book.
(But I came here, again, to praise you for you FITs note, which I'll now comment on...)
I'm liking this so you feel engaged with and understood, and so that you like my stuff later ;)
I'm sad, tho also not sure, about books becoming less important. They certainly are to some extent, except for escapism for reading nerds. Yet my computer game-playing sons are also reading books in PDF form. And much of what intellectuals talk about is based on books, along with their own authority to talk about it. "White Fragility", became fetched (?) because while it had been a phrase, it became an intellectual meme target from the book.
(But I came here, again, to praise you for you FITs note, which I'll now comment on...)