Young people may have had a greater sense of curiosity then. (But also a healthy scepticism derived from an often voracious reading habit still including people like Dickens, Thoreau, Twain and Vonnegut. And those of us that remember such things as the draft lottery, when America's young men and their parents waited for their government to tell them how much longer the nation's 18 year old males had left to live. How not to be sceptical of everything we were told to trust?) I may be mistaken, but it somewhat seems that the goal of the internet is to tell young people where to place their interests, not how to expand them, or to be just cynical enough for basic survival.

I starting to think that a great many things we took for granted then were based on the habit of reading, and that's a bit scary. for our future.

(Not sure if I got off topic or not...)

Thank you.