I've spent 40 years or more reading books and I wonder if they're starting to actually alter my brain.
It's great that they're so addictive but when you're reading them it's like you're completely isolated and cut off from the real world, there's no connection to anything real or human at all. Your brain is tricked into imagining that there's real stuff going on but there's not, it's just a linear arrangement of black lines. You make no choices, take no active part, you just follow the plot that's dicated to you by the 'author', you're locked into a kind of dream world, a dream world sold to you for the most part, by one of a tiny number of global publishing keiretsu.
There's increasing evidence that books actually change the shape of the brain and they're literally addictive. Not addictive in the sense of the actual meaning of the word, but addictive in the sense of what people mean when they say 'addictive' - which is worse.
So, I've decided I'm going to take some time off grid and try and detox books from my system. It's going to be hard, obviously, books have been pushed into every facet of our lives almost without us noticing. Look beside your bed, for instance, I bet you'll find a bunch of books just sitting there waiting to be read.
I'm going to spend my time, instead, trying to reconnect with the real people in my life via games and social media.