Fiction once was deemed particularly dangerous to women, filling their heads with unrealistic fancies https://www.1843magazine.com/design/rewind/an-18thcentury-moral-panic-sounds-surprisingly-familiar
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"Critics worried that novel-readers would lose the ability to distinguish fact from fiction..."
Egyptians worried people would lose the ability to remember, if the new technology of "writing" was allowed.
We humans like to worry, maybe because we change so fast and plan so poorly.