Why not read a book?

noteworthy wrote:
] For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass
] culture follows a path declining steadily toward
] lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the
] "masses" want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies
] try to give the masses what they want. But the exact opposite
] is happening: the culture is getting more cognitively
] demanding, not less.
]
] To keep up with the latest entertainment, you have to pay
] attention, make inferences, track shifting social
] relationships.
]
] This is what I call the Sleeper Curve: the most debased forms
] of mass diversion -- video games and violent television dramas
] and juvenile sitcoms -- turn out to be nutritional after
] all.