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To: KierkegaardMAN
Reading? It makes your mind weak as stated by Socrates via Plato.

If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.

Plato, Phaedrus

My favorite quote whenever someone complains about a new technology weakening the mind.
5 posted on 08/30/2022 6:56:08 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
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To: KarlInOhio

new technology weakening the mind.

LED and computer screens frequently emit blue wavelength light, which fatigues your eyes/ retinas. If you wear glasses to read any backlit screen, a good suggestion is to wear blue filtered lens, even available at your local drugstore.

You’ll likely even sleep better.


8 posted on 08/30/2022 7:01:33 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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