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dinsdag 11 december 2007 11:50  verstuur

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Beeldvergroting: Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing

Wordt er minder gelezen en is dat 'de schuld' van het internet?

De rede die Doris Lessing ter gelegenheid van de aanvaarding van de Nobel Prijs voor Literatuur op schrift stelde is een hartstochtelijk pleidooi voor lezen, het boek en de bibliotheek, gekoppeld aan haar ervaringen in Zimbabwe.

'We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers. What has happened to us is an amazing invention, computers and the internet and TV, a revolution.

This is not the first revolution we, the human race, has dealt with. The printing revolution, which did not take place in a matter of a few decades, but took much longer, changed our minds and ways of thinking. A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?"

And just as we never once stopped to ask, How are we, our minds, going to change with the new internet, which has seduced a whole generation into its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging and blugging etc.'