Welcome back to From The Diving Board!
In this episode we unpack why Jacob Elordi is carrying feminist literature in his back pocket (basically). While literacy rates are declining and phone addictions continues to rise, the aesthetic of “being offline” has become a marker of elitism.
Why is reading, or the appearance of reading, so desirable in an age of doom scrolling? What does this say about culture right now?
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timestamps:
00:00 intro
03:15 reading is hot
07:27 brain rot culture
11:41 hard to read
15:33 pseudo-intellectualism
19:55 nerdy chic
24:49 it’s a class thing
29:52 digital-detox core
33:00 conclusion
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sources:
Chloe Mac Donnell, ‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/09/reading-is-so-sexy-gen-z-turns-to-physical-books-and-libraries
Henry Belot, Warning decline in Australia’s adult literacy being hidden by lack of data https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/13/warning-decline-in-australias-adult-literacy-being-hidden-by-lack-of-data
Ella Creamer, Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in-children-reading-for-pleasure-national-literacy-trust
Kern Carter, When reading becomes performative, society suffers https://writersaresuperstars.substack.com/p/when-reading-becomes-performative
Nathan Crispo, TikTok Brain: Can We Save Children’s Attention Spans? https://jolt.richmond.edu/2024/03/06/tiktok-brain-can-we-save-childrens-attention-spans/
Rose Horowitch, The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/
Jonathan Haidt, END THE PHONE-BASED CHILDHOOD NOW https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/
Kaitlyn Tiffany, A ‘RADICAL’ APPROACH TO RECLAIMING YOUR ATTENTION https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/strother-school-radical-attention/680830/
McKinsey & Company, Mind The Gap https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/email/genz/2024/01/2024-01-23d.html
Madeleine Aggeler, Bovine colostrum, raw milk and cortisol face: the biggest wellness trends of 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/dec/05/2024-wellness-trends
Sophia Epstein, Is it possible to digital detox anymore? https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230313-is-it-possible-to-digital-detox-anymore
Yaqi Gong, Ashley Schroeder & Patrick Lee Plaisance, Digital detox tourism: An Ellulian critique https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160738323001196
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