I think I once wrote somewhere that "parents are relieved when their children are just reading a printed book".

So ,I think I also gave children some advice

"Children should pretend to be reading a print book, if only to reassure their parents."

In the first place, the idea that "young people are losing interest in print" is also quite spurious.

Even reading articles on their phone requires print. In the first place, social networking sites, where messages are exchanged in print rather than spoken, are difficult in their own way.

I believe that the younger generation is more familiar with the fear of trouble caused by printed matter.

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Yesterday, I was on the phone with this "rude junior"...

"It used to be that a man who could criticize another had to be intelligent and well-informed enough to do so"

It is now "sympathy"--or rather, what we call "atmosphere"--that has become the basis for "criticism"

We agreed that this is right (maybe).

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This is an unfortunate time for intellectuals (in a good way).

The "intellectual elite" have been defeated by the "you-know-who" who can read the "atmosphere"

There is no prospect of reinstatement for the intellectual elite.

"By reading a lot of books, you can become an intelligent person, and if you become an intelligent person, you can have a good life (education, job, etc.)"

This paradigm is already unreasonable.

Rather, people who live by their senses and intuition, without knowledge or intellect, sometimes seem happier.

If that is the case, one of the ways to become a winner in life may be 'not learning'.

(To be continued)