Read books. Even better: read print books and other print media. Develop reading as a habit. For example, read a book, magazine, newspaper, comic book, graphic novel, or some other print media while you commute. You will be role-modeling that practice for others. Readers find other readers. Keep a written journal because reality, the truth, and (public) memory are under siege. This journal will help to orient you in a time of increasing chaos, confusion, and great loss and pain. Deep reading and literacy are skills that must be practiced. (here, “literacy” is more expansive than print and includes culture and the arts more broadly). Neuroscientists have shown that the human brain processes, retains, and relates to information differently when it is in print vs digital form. In many fundamental ways, the global democracy crisis is a crisis of literacy and critical thinking.

-Chauncey Devega in Salon.com