The Power of Books

NY Dispatch Day 125: Imagine a world in which people are so disconnected from one another that they find it easier to maintain imagined relationships with television actors. Where easily obtainable prescription drugs can help you escape the ennui of life and overworked medical crews are on standby to help revive those who overdose. A society where thinking is discouraged because it leads to radical ideas. Where reading books, which might introduce concepts that some might find depressing, is not...