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June, 2005

1. Sunday 12

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   Everything Bad Is Good for You — 47 people

   Worth consuming! Tagged: nonfiction

   
   
   
   

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A story about "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter" — 3 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

I’ve been having trouble getting into this book. It seems like the perfect response to a strawman argument (or, as a college text I just saw would put it, a “straw person” argument). My husband started it and found it irritating—he agreed with Johnson that tv is getting better, but insists that movies are getting worse.

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A story about "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter" — 3 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

The book was interesting in places. Still don’t know exactly who Johnson is arguing with; he alludes to various anti-pop culture screeds, but nothing he says seems terribly new, either. He did a good job of putting together trends in different media and of finding catchy names for them (e.g., the Sleeper effect = the discovery that much of what we thought was bad for us is actually good for us).

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