Marcus Aurelius quote comes to mind: "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

While most of the times the main stream content from "black screens" feeds us dead content e.g. it's difficult to reflect to or from, books on the other hand, are intellectually more dynamic because they enable self reflection, imagination and world-understanding through thyself.

"Reader writes the book." If one reads enough books (self reflects enough) one, overtime, piece by piece, becomes themself... a pawn ... a QUEEN, ... a KING.