Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[Michael Bailey]

 barbie gaze wrote:
> Jonathan Franzen is just getting old. Everything new is damaging one thing
> or another. Change is damaging.

Ms Gaze Nietzscheanly espouses catastrophism rather than incrementalism

temporal bandwidth enters into this somewhere:
I'm not saying prophetically know the future - that'd be nice work if
you could get it - but allow for a future in your planning...seeing
"damage" as change or "change" as damage somehow begs the question for
me (that's one of those phrases that has never really made sense to me
till lately, and maybe not so much even now) - "what is 'damage'"
which I guess is a subspecies of that "define your terms"
argument-refiner

suppose nothing is really as you think it is (which is probably true,
right?) and yet you have to conceptualize things somehow so if you're
on the ball you know that things will change because you're living in
a temporary construct...but of course that begs the question "if it
isn't real why does it feel so real"...I  was gonna say adjust to what
you see coming and avoid damage (or even darnage)

anyway - Franzen ain't all that bad in my book, readers expect a lot
and no one writer can completely satisfy everything needed (thank
goodness) although Pynchon comes close ( though I could wish for a
decalogy of Doc 'tecs if he wanted to cater to me...)

so if Mr F wants to urinate and ululate I can sympathize to a degree:
I like printed books and sure would miss them if they went away
completely.. but they won't...right Mark?