Is 'And so, uh, those things come about through the work of reading rather than through listening to some person on the street corner or, uh, gazing on TV.' an autonomous statement, not logically connected to 'Those things happen because of the effort required to read instead of listening to someone talk.'
And so, uh, those things come about through the work of reading rather than through listening to some person on the street corner or, uh, gazing on TV.###Those things happen because of the effort required to read instead of listening to someone talk.