In 1984, I gave away my television after overhearing a conversation about the subliminal programing and entrainment technology being rolled out to manage public opinion through television. Not being someone who
appreciates interference with my intelligence and ability to understand the world around me and act in accordance with my values and goals, I decided to just start getting more of my information by reading. As my understanding of the material omissions in corporate media grew, I slowly began to switch from newspapers and magazines to books and then to the Internet as information became available through the web. While the new growth in documentaries has won some of my time away from reading, I still read significant amounts of books and written reports. Indeed, one of my favorite lines in the movies comes from Three Days of the Condor. One senior US intelligence leader asks another how an analyst played by Robert Redford who has been been targeted for elimination is managing to outwit their best field agents and assassins. The response is “He reads. He reads…everything.”

Here is a report from the New Yorker that adds some reasons why you may want to do the same.

Twilight of the Books
By Caleb Crain – The New Yorker (24 Dec 2007)