The Owl Has Flown

In Birkert's essay, he explains how now a days, people don't rely so much on reading and memorizing. Most of our information is broadcast through TV, radio and the internet. Out information is stored online most of the time, we don't feel the need to memorize, just skim through reading to get the jest of it. We think it'll be there all the time, we can look things up at our convienience to look up later. I agree because it's so simple just to looked something up on our laptops or phone, but a day later, we won't remember the answer we searched for. Then, just look it up all over again.
Birkert states that before, when reading wasn't available as much, people would just read over whatever they had and memorize the text. It's still happening around the world where they don't get much text. Compare the man who sits at home, reading to the man sitting at home watching TV. The ones who have more resources seems more lazy than the one who takes the time to remember what he read.
There is so mch information brought out to us today, we son't have enough room to cram it all into our brains. We plug in and out what stays in our short and long term memory.
Out wisdom has litterly flown out of our minds. We don't take the time to sit and read let alone memorize what we have read. Reading it difficult. To understand reading, we need to take the time to actually read and not skim. To embrace the knowledge it's giving us.