Decline of the West
From Infonomics
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Reasons for Reading
To change your life; to make your life better If mankind desires a society of generosity and unselfishness, then do not expect help from biological nature The fundamental unit of selection is the gene, the unit of heredity.
But there are other people who, for whatever reason, just don`t fit right into the established values. They find themselves disgruntled, dissatisfied by even with the best-meaning teachers and parents said. Those people go a lot of directions, but one of the best directions they can go is to become obsessed readers. They read and read and read until they start to find people who see the world in a way that`s akin to theirs. And then they feel that they`re home. They`ve got a second set of parents and a second set of teachers, and they can start seeing the world for themselves, a little bit different from the way the community sees it, often.
Brian Lamb Interviews Author Mark Edmundson (abridged)
Brian Lamb Mark Edmundson
1 Why Read? 1 The compressed answer is, to change your life, to make it a little bit better than it is.
2 How does reading change your life? 2 ...we all get socialized one time around by parents and teachers and schools and priests and ministers...And for a lot of people, those values will do just fine. They`re community values. They`re long tested and long tried, and there`s something eminently respectable about them.
3 You also say that you read it [Remembrance of Things Past] to learn about what you really are, what you are -- instead of what Proust says, what you think of yourself? 3 Yes. Proust has that wonderful line where he talks about how readers will come to understand themselves by seeing the world through his eyes. And some of what he has to say will resonate with them, and that`ll be marvelous, but some of it won`t. And then he says, But you shouldn`t criticize me if it doesn`t. That`s just the part of the book that`s not about you. It`s just about me.
Author, Richard Dawkins
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Footnotes
Supplemental Information
- Brian Lamb Interviews Mark Edmundson (complete interview; pdf format)
- Brian Lamb Interview Analyzed (pdf format)
Sources
- Grolier Classics (1956), Grolier Inc., ISBN: 7172-1400-1, Library Congress Card Number: 55-12250
