"Books or medicine can cure fools" is an old saying left by our sages. "Books are the ladder of human progress" is a famous saying left by Gorky. It can be said that as long as they have received school education and read two books, few people have never heard of these two sentences, and few people do not understand the truth. They know and understand, but why are people close to books now? That's because the pace of life in today's era has changed a lot compared with before; But also because the way we read today is quietly changing.
There is no need to compare with more distant times, even if it is only compared with the society 30 years ago, the change of our life rhythm is very amazing. In that planned economy era, there was a lack of material and cultural life and competition in work. Life is like an old cow pulling a broken car, creaking and wobbling. Slowly, slowly, we can lack everything else, but it is definitely a lot of time; However, in today's market economy, with more and more abundant materials, more and more rich cultural life and more and more heavy work pressure, we always feel that we have endless work, and time passes like a flash-I really hate that we can't seize the time and let it stand still. In this context, the time we can allocate to reading is naturally very limited. So I agree that "no time to read" is the reason for the decline in book reading rate.
The other side of the problem is that even reading, today, is not just reading, nor is it limited to the traditional reading method of "adding fragrance to tea at night". The survey results of "the reading rate of national network and magazines in China has increased rapidly in recent years" illustrate this point. Why are these two reading methods growing rapidly? It is related to the fact that we have entered the information society today, and the amount of information is unprecedented. People need to get all kinds of information at the first time. Although books may have certain advantages in knowledge accumulation and ideological depth, their immediacy obviously lags behind. In addition, online reading is even less interactive than books.
Take my personal experience and understanding as an example. Today, I still read a lot, but to tell the truth, it is still the Internet: online news and "net articles" published on reading websites such as "Mo Xianzhai". The former makes me "a scholar can know what's going on in the world without going out"; The latter, on the other hand, let me know a lot of frontier thoughts on the edge of mainstream thoughts, and let me come into contact with many historical figures and events that have been dusty for a long time-here, reading is not only to get a kind of spiritual pleasure, but also to think about society and reflect on the past history. In this sense, the value of online reading is not necessarily lower than that of traditional reading. After all, compared with the real world, the online world.
For me, who is close to knowing my destiny and consciously accepting and mastering many new things, I am still drifting away from books and getting closer to the internet, not to mention people in their twenties or thirties or a little older. Moreover, judging from the comments or remarks made by many netizens in the form of "posts" on major international and domestic news, many people have not become superficial because they are far away from books. On the contrary, they feel more independent and speculative than when the traditional reading methods were dominant in the past. Therefore, I don't think the continuous decline in the reading rate of Chinese national books is really worth worrying about.
As long as we insist on healthy reading, no matter what form, it is beneficial to our society and individuals.