Will Self says we should embrace the intellectual challenge of
"difficult" books and art, and value works which are more taxing than
our increasingly low-brow popular culture. "The most disturbing result of
this retreat from the difficult is to be found in arts and humanities
education, where the traditional set texts are now chopped up into boneless
nuggets of McKnowledge, and students are encouraged to do their research - such
as it is - on the web."
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