Books are one of the greatest bulwarks against kleptocracy and authoritarianism because they hone focus, attention, and can imbue a mind with the calm required to take clear action: Qualities required by a society to “win.” To be reductive (and somewhat alarmist): The feed, the doomscroll, the hyperventilation, is the heartbeat of political and social death. It is not life. It is a false heartbeat. BEWARE the feed and what it makes you do and think; cultivate the clear mind. (Please, for all of us, cultivate the clear mind.) - Craig Mod

A book is always a book. A book needs no battery. You make a contract with a book and it holds up its side of the agreement, to be a book.