31st January 2005, 6:55 PM
You are so incredibly annoying, OB1... why must everything be a violent conflict to you? Why are you physically unable to just discuss things? It makes any talking with you incredibly annoying unless we're in 100% agreement... this discussion is here because Weltall said more people should read, which is true, and that most people prefer mind-not-required media like television, which is also true. Your counter-argument is that movies can be like that too. Sometimes they can, in most respects (the 'imagination' arguement is a totally different issue that I think I've argued to death with you before (though I still don't think you get what I mean)), but that point really doesn't matter here! Not much in the TV/movie media form USES that potential and most consumers don't WANT it to because that actually would require some thought. Books, by virtue of being a more challenging media form to consume (don't even try to deny that, it's obvious), have a smaller base audience which already is predetermined to at least somewhat want more depth so there would probably be a greater proportion of people who want even more complexity than that.
Oh yeah, and many of them are probably people who would also like complex films if they watched them, I'd bet.
Oh yeah, and many of them are probably people who would also like complex films if they watched them, I'd bet.