/lit/ - Literature

High IQ Anon here, the type that would probably write the books you would read. My question is this: what function does this shelf broadening obsession have towards society?

Don't get me wrong, I like books, but I see you nerds trading authors names like pokemon cards. As if it's some kind of street cred to have read a book by some unpronounceable foreign name. Did you not get bullied enough in school? Do you even have an endgame? What could you possibly be doing with such a broad net of knowledge, pulled from the ranks of obscurity, and thus mediocrity? What are you planning?