/lit/ - Literature

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Reading could take you away from esthetic experience, it could raise your intolerance, gross "misunderstandings" could bring confusing thoughts (and they are often disguised as certainties), it could preach an ideology to you but also new fantasies, interests and fetishes.

We are taught in many ways to seek for an abundance of information rather than to make good use of whatever we have. We look down on excess of fat, but we treasure an obesity of the mind, as if reading more and recalling more were definitive good things, regardless of what you do with it. What exactly are you taking in? And how will it get out?

OP's question is "if there is no harm, why not go it all the way?", but put it differently: if there is no gain, why go at all?

This is not supposed to sound paranoid, nor to create an abuse of skepticism or caution when you turn to the next book. It is not dangerous in itself, but it has an effect on you and your world, so you can't ignore its quality, nor dive into the matter of quantity mindlessly. There is no need to calculate your actions, but I think it's a fairly good advice to at least think about them, retroactively also.

It's about maintaining healthy relationships, making good use of your time, asking yourself what does it mean, nourishing what you seek to develop, stumble upon things that have a good effect and so on.