What one reads is just as important as that one reads.

Mike, I appreciate that you responded to so many people. It drew out many new ideas.

As I read through the entire discourse, I realized that no one chimed in on content. Without ever emphasizing my personal biases, I’d like to draw a mental picture.

Imagine a person’s life is like a bicycle wheel, or wagon wheel. A person’s life-of-learning starts at the hub and migrates outward toward the rim, which also signifies age and maturity.

Lets assume, like a gymnast, one can jump from any given spoke to an adjacent spoke. I know this this is an analogy, and as I attempt to construct it, I see it is falling apart, so bear with me. Someone will argue the arrangement of subjects around the wheel; please don’t go there.

I see two themes being discussed in all the responses that I’ve read thus far: the ability and love of reading and deep thinking and the second is the concept that this helps us as a society. No arguments here.