pointless

why does no one read anymore? instead people sit staring into computer screens for hours on end, pretending to shoot people or maim them with their cars. it is exactly this type of violent stimulation that has caused today's youth to become more and more aggressive. ALSO! these videogames severely limit your ability to think for yourself and greatly stunt your imagination. think about it, when you watch a movie and THEN read the book, you only think of the characters and situations in a certain way. the characters are predetermined for you. you only picture them as the actors. and the setting can only be as specific as what you may have seen. when you read, your imagination has a free reign to picture and create whatever it wants. it can come up with beautiful pictures that movies could only dream of achieving.
harry potter is an excellent example. when i read the goblet of fire, i had this moment, when harry was fighting the dragon, where i imagined the whole scenario. AND IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER IN MY HEAD THAN IT WAS ON FILM! the drama was so much more intense, the emotions were like your own, i could see through the characters eyes, and i saw it how I wanted to see it.
people talk all the time about wanting an escape, well how about rather than turning on your stupid auto theft 500000 or whatever they are on now, try escaping into your own mind. read.