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18700532 No.18700532 [Reply] [Original]

Does reading books make you intellectual or is it just a means of entertainment?

>> No.18700547

Both.
How do you not know this?

>> No.18700549

>>18700532
Proof of being an intellectual is being able to use what you read in conversation, creation, or work. Simply reading things without remembering or actually engaging with a work is just as bad as watching anime all day.

>> No.18700562

>>18700532
if you read in order to put on a social status, then you are wasting your time.

>> No.18700573

For the average 2021 reader (a woman) it's neither, they just take instagram selfies with the book and put it on a shelf.

>> No.18700624

>>18700547
If books make you intellectual, and you can answer this so assertively, then how do you not understand your know-it-all persona, demonstrated here in your snarky reply (as ever) betrays your point? Maybe because you're not actually an intellectual and just a good little slave mind.

>> No.18700632

>>18700532
start with the greeks

>> No.18700677
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>>18700624
I don’t know it all

>> No.18700753

>>18700532
Reading is a distraction as with anything else.
it is how you think that matetrs and no book will help a brainlet supersede his limitations.
A lot of brainlets read a lot and just quote other peoples thoughts

>> No.18700803

>>18700549
How do you use what you read in conversation?