/lit/ - Literature

>>17095178
>Is reading just consooming?
Yes.
>Is there any virtue in reading?
No.
>You're just consuming the work of another mind.
Yes.
>Yes, most literary novels are far more rewarding intellectually than something like TV,
No.
>but it's still consuming isn't it?
Yes.
>>any books on this subject?
No.

I think the point of the consoomer meme is to make fun of people who indulge in material excess or vapid sensual pleasures as a form of escapism. You're probably fine as long as you're not buying books for a collection never meant to be read or using reading as your sole defining personality trait.

Tfw consume book to learn why consume book is not consume

from "Shakespeare and The Denial of Death":

Becker's notion of a communal "hero system" is an extension of the conquest of death through individual heroics. As a symbol-made creature I need not literally survive death in battle to become immortal. I make a conquest of death symbolically when I win an argument, a chess match, a lucrative contract, or the hand of a fair lady. For I do not merely win in these contests, I kill. Almost every sport thrives on phrases like "kill, slaughter, destroy, annihilate, bury," and so on. Through such killings I grow great. If I kill often enough, I will live forever. In a society in which winning is not everything but the only thing, we need merely compare the faces of winners and losers at the end of a Super Bowl, a World Series, or a national spelling bee to realize what the stakes have really been.

Unfortunately, because the world abounds with articulate debaters, master chess players, shrewd businessmen, and irresistible courtly lovers, my chances of killing consistently are not as good as my chances of getting killed rather often. In which case, rather than put up with these lesser deaths I will simply join the higher powers and grow great by proxy. If I cannot play in the Super Bowl or be president of General Motors, at least I can sit in the stands and root for the Chicago Bears or buy GM cars with names like Firebird or Challenger and enter the lists with death on the freeway. Or if I cannot write like Shakespeare or Joyce, or think like Aquinas or Wittgenstein, still I can accumulate a great library and absorb their immortal rays by osmosis. Each new book I place on the shelves is one more gold piece in my strongbox: I grow, I prosper. But of course no immortality system is infallible; even the Chicago Bears can lose Super Bowls and the Boston Celtics, NBA championships. And if they door if my stocks fall, my car is totaled, or my library burns upthere is nothing for it: I die.

>>17095202
>>Yes, most literary novels are far more rewarding intellectually than something like TV,
>No.
Imbecile.

>>17095178
Reading is "consooming," but buying a bunch of books is.

For me, it's library books.

>>17095395
Is watching pirated capeshit not consuming?

>>17095383
>Imbecile.
No.

>>17095482
>No.
Yes.

>>17095501
>Yes.
Yes.

You could be absorbing knowledge and ideas from the great thinkers of the past, or you could be memorizing how many points Lebron James scored in 2006 and the names of the Dallas Cowboys jock strap washer

>>17095178
>Is reading just consooming?
For you, yes. Not for someone striving to earn a PhD or a lot of money / fame in an area of intellectual expertise.

Asking this question using those buzzwords suggesting you've been consuming too much internet

>>17095178
Yeah but consumption is fine in most cases.
The problem with "consoomers" is the fact that they can hardly enjoy what they are consuming. A guy who religiously watches capeshit are usually more excited for the given sequel after the movie is over rather than relishing the fact that it was a good movie. Same with books or games. Consumers treat media as almost expendable entertainment rather than as a vessel to transport ideas and themes.
If you read YA fantasy novels that are essentially retold DND stories then you won't really get anything out of reading. But if you dedicate time to reading wholesome and worthwhile pieces like those from the Greeks or philosophical works then you will actually learn something about the world, or at least understand someone else's perspective of it.

>is there value in absorbing the transferred knowledge of another individual with experiences and talent different/greater than your own?
You're stupid, OP

>>17095202
Based

>>17095383
>>17095482
>>17095501
>>17095527

>>17095178
>has not heard of libraries

>>17095405
No, in fact you're literally stealing money from them

>>17095395
>>17098100
Retarded Logic anon:
> Oh? What am I drinking? Well...s o y...but just so you know I stole it so yeah, I'm based.
Cope, consooming is consooming weather you steal or not.
Also good job stealing shit nigger.

>>17098521
*whether
Whatever, my bad. Point still stands.

>>17095178
>You're just consuming the work of another mind.
That's one way to do it. On the other hand, you can also interact with the content of a work. I'm sure time people absolutely do just read product and get excited for next product, but you don't HAVE to read like that.

There is nothing wrong with consooming.

Go back to plebbit peanutbrain

>>17098862
Who are you talking to? You should put in the post you’re referencing so people know.

>>17095178
>Is reading just consooming?
Not if it directly contributes to a change of yourself. But if it's a mere experience you order like a food in a restaurant, yes.

>Who are you talking to? You should put in the post you’re referencing so people know.

i always feel like reading is a waste of time when i finish a book. like what the fuck was the point of that. u know what rly made me feel like reading was a waste of time was watching that open yale courses lecture on the crying of lot 49 after finishing the crying of lot 49 the day before. i'm like so this is what they do at the most elite university in the world? dissect a hippy novel by counting the number of times men cry in it? deep. waste of fucking time. can't decide what do read next now. probably nothing. i'm going to play cyberpunk 2077 while i have some time off between semesters. peace.

>>17098933
lol

>>17098902
Who are you talking to? You should put in the post you’re referencing so people know.

every time some meme criticizing extremes of some behavior pops up you have to up the ante and make it even broader

>>17095178
This is only a problem if you have contrived yourself to look down on those who consume. This is a dumb way to look at the world as consumption is a natural instinct that all people indulge to some extent. Try reframing your aspiration to live a more meaningful life around a positive (creation good) rather than a negative (consumption bad).