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October 28, 2005
Kurt Vonnegut: the huge illiterate population can sure as hell watch a movie
In a Forbes special on communication, Kurt Vonnegut ventures about how to tell a story today: "All of the arts, with the exception of architecture, are practical jokes, making people respond emotionally and at no risk to themselves, because things aren't really happening... What I do, which is becoming more and more impractical I think, is make people respond to idiosyncratic arrangements of 26 phonetic symbols and ten Arabic numbers in horizontal lines on a page. And there was a time when this was a form of home entertainment, and so it was worthwhile for people to learn how to read. But reading it is actually quite difficult... But ink on paper is no way to tell a story anymore. Film and movies are the best way to tell a story today... Because of our terrible high schools, we have a huge illiterate population, but they can sure as hell watch a movie."
Posted by pride at October 28, 2005 03:25 PM
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