/lit/ - Literature

>Does your family read books, /lit/?

It's interesting to note that the average person is dumb as a brick. Which explains why trash TV shows, fast food, get rich overnight, and diet pills have mass appeal. Here are some interesting statistics:

"1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
Watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time (2.8 hours per day, on average)"

Imagine people reading, on average, 3 hours per day. How educated would the average American be? People are dumb as fuck - that is the reality we cannot deny.

Jennifer Jolan - some chick who sells ebooks on Amazon - is banking million of dollars by writing short, 30 page "books" on dieting. This reviewer explains:

"As with many of Ms. Jolan's "books" I cannot help be struck by the fact that reading her work is like reading that of an average eight grader. The writing style is of such poor quality, I cringed my way through it.

As a business woman however, she gets a lot of credit for finding and packaging each new fringe notion of the weight loss realm that she encounters, dumbs it down in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator out there, such as the desperate but lazy types who are still unwilling to really dig in, take responsibility for their health, pursue and implement any of the quality work on this topic out there"

Too long, didn't read: people are dumb who want get rich over night schemes. Now go out there and sell them stuff, so they can put it on their credit card.

Sources:

[1] http://hotforwords.com/2011/04/11/42-of-people-who-graduate-from-college-never-read-another-book/www
.jenkinsgroupInc.com

[2] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm

>mfw the general public is dumb.

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>the most basic little mechanical keyboard

mech keyboard on my /lit/

>mfw