On The Onion … and Deviant Reading Behavior
“Instead of just zoning out during a bus ride or spending hour after hour watching YouTube videos at night, Mr. Meyer, unlike most healthy males, looks to books for gratification,” Schulz said. “Really, it’s a classic case of deviant behavior.” …
After the humor of this story wore off a bit, I began to wonder: How far off is society at large from being in such a state that a story like this is no longer funny, but a horrible reality? I believe so far off that we can still laugh (and will be able to for quite some time) about The Onion’s story of Philip Meyer; but obviously there is mounting concern about the nation’s reading habits, and I can see why—among other reasons, I seem to question the intelligence of much of the population on a daily basis, especially while driving on the highway or watching the news.