Ch. 10

Books were probably the most revolutionary invention ever.  They could keep track of things and teach knowledge of past generations and people to everyone who reads them.  However, when books were first invented, they could only be hand-written, and therfore were very rare.  Only rich people could afford them during this time.  When the printing press came out, it changed all of this.  Books could be mass produced and all of this knowledge could be passed around to everyone.  History, skills, religions, and overall knowledge, could be transferred to anyone who would read the right book.  It encouraged independent thought and led to more than a few revolutions and uprisings.

Children and teens don't want to read anymore, though.  They're becoming way too lazy and are taking way too many things for granted.  They're too busy moving their thumbs a couple of millimeters on an Xbox controller to care about reading.  It's stupid, really.  No one wants to learn, anymore, and our leaders are getting older and older.  Pretty soon, it's going to be up to us and the only thing we're going to know how to do, is move our thumbs a couple of millimeters.  It's scary when you realize that these 10-year old kids are going to be a part of our future, because a lot of them are just complete morons.

I think if parents would just make their kids read and pay more attention to school, instead of just letting them eat junk all day and get fat playing video games, maybe things wouldn't be as scary.  Technology can be a great source of entertainment, but when kids spend their entire lives sitting there, it's just plain stupid.  I was at least running around outside, when I was little.  I might have played my bother's Playstation a lot of the time, too, but I at least read on top of this.  All in all, books are the best source of knowledge because they don't require anything except the book itself.