/lit/ - Literature

Such venom! Fellow forum-browsers, I query: Why does any public intellectual activity immediately cause the general public to resort to accusations of pretension? Reading is not an inherently pretentious act, even such tomes as The Iliad or Gravity's Rainbow are applauded for the entertainment one derives from the act of processing their plot, prose, and text. Consider, could this video satire simply be an expression of its makers' insecurities? He seems to be offended just by the simple act of reading a novel in front of others!

Like most of The Onion's videos and articles, it is a decent quip but its execution was overlong and clumsy.