/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13243193]

Why won't normie read shit that isn't asked by school?

(English isn't my first language)

I mean, i asked some of my friends what did they read since they left school and they were like "bruh i don't read shit"

W h y ?
Just why?

[Anonymous No.13243199]

>>13243193
It's time-consuming and unfashionable
plus school probably made them hate it

[Anonymous No.13243206]

>>13243193
Get out summerfag

[Anonymous No.13243208]

Mass media has devalued the book in the mind of the self satisfied man

[Anonymous No.13243217]

>>13243199
First of all
School made me, actually, love literature.
Secondly, using social media is also time consuming, i also think that it's cheaper to read a book on your phone that u downloaded than to go on twitter w your data on your way home.

[Anonymous No.13243238]

>>13243208
I mean, in an argument, i would prefer listen to the guy that quotes book than the dude quoting shitty "artists" like 69 h

[Anonymous No.13243241]

>>13243238
Because you're not self satisfied, you expect something better and higher than yourself in life, the dude quoting 69 is the man who feels himself "just like everyone else"

[Anonymous No.13243251]

>>13243193
Gotta have time to post on 4chan 8 hours a day bro

[Anonymous No.13243276]

>>13243241
You read this concept in a book? curious

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13243280]

>>13243193
Some, no time, others, no inclination.
We must destroy capitalism

[Anonymous No.13243284]

>>13243276
Revolt of the masses

[Anonymous No.13243315]

>>13243280
It's not capitalism, it's IQ. Anyone who lives in a developed country has the chance to read. If you speak English books are literally free to download and you have access to all the great books with a few clicks of a button. Yet people still do not read. You commies really need to understand that people are just different and the majority are idiots.

[Anonymous No.13243317]

>>13243280
>anarchists
>destroying anything besides trash cans

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13243347]

>>13243317
Trash cans sill exist.
Someday we will be able to recycle everything and the cans too will be gone. Be afraid crappy, be very afraid!

[Anonymous No.13243410]

>>13243347
Get back to me when your ideology gets a society that lasts longer than 5 years

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13243466]

>>13243315
Capitalism keeps people working 40+ hours a week and too tired to do much else but mindless prepackaged shit. Capitalism wants only dutiful worker drones (though we are entering the age where they don’t need as many, so the healthcare is drying up and it’s okay with the Uber wealthy if we just die off) Looking at IQ and stopping there is just STUPID.

>>13243410
>dick wagging contest
Get back to me when Christ returns on his flying white horse and a flamey sword

[Anonymous No.13243497]

>>13243466
The implication was that you haven't managed it for a reason dickhead

[Anonymous No.13243537]

>>13243466
No retard everyone in a developed country goes through schooling where they are exposed to literature and encouraged to read. Very few of them actually read in their own free time, saying that it's "boring". The system probably has an effect on it but I doubt that many more people will start reading after the death of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.13243890]

>>13243280
That painting is a direct consequence of capitalism you cunt with bourgeois taste

[Anonymous No.13243906]

>>13243193
Because they don’t want to. Stop worrying about them, just keep reading yourself.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13243929]

>>13243497
Yeah. Capitalism being the chief reason. We have not achieved freedom because of it, and before capitalism it was feudalism, etc.

>>13243537
But after the death of this system people will have lots of free time on their hands. Some will read and wrote more, some will tinker and invent, some will just workout a lot. We would push out into space and push into the depths of ourselves and our world. Finally free to go where we would

>>13243890
>My capitalism made that. No touchy! NO TOUCHY

[Anonymous No.13243950]

>>13243929
Based butters

[Anonymous No.13243968]

>>13243929
Kids have 6 weeks free time all summer to read. Literacy rates are highest they've ever been. Yet very few read. It's IQ, not capitalism.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13243999]

>>13243968
In this age of distraction, you pick on a group of grub drones in their off season? Their parents both working and raised under the same repressive system, you expect them all to find literature or excel in the sciences or something. Some do, but as I said in some other thread, the system takes them as a commodity and burns them out for profits often enough.

IT IS CAPITALISM

[Anonymous No.13244031]

>>13243929
It's bourgeois academicism - pomposity, not vanguard

[Anonymous No.13244083]

>>13243929
anarchism's main flaw isn't capitalism my dude

[Anonymous No.13244332]

>>13243929
Capitalism designed that painting to appeal to your banal mind, to make it more sellable. You want great and difficult changes for the society but you personally are still far too cozily positioned in the status quo pleasure machine of capitalist art and culture. True art is action, not masturbation.

[Anonymous No.13244440]

Those for a passion for intellectual pursuits have been in the minority since the dawn of human consciousness. Most people don't like reading, it's that simple.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13244454]

>>13244031
>>13244083
>>13244332
Not convincing

[Anonymous No.13244588]

>>13244454
>>13243410

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13244609]

>>13244588
Challenge accepted

[Anonymous No.13244730]

>>13244454
Dumb crypto-capitalist cunt; AFŽ is looking down on you.

[Anonymous No.13245022]

They are purposefully burnt out from working long shifts so their only option is Netflix.

[Anonymous No.13245039]

School actively discouraged me from reading by forcing me to read novels I wasn't mature enough to understand yet. I eventually wised up and reread the material years later but at the time it was "This is it? These are the supposed great, fundamental works of U.S. literature? These suck!"
I still don't like The Great Gatsby though, fuck that thing.

[Anonymous No.13245056]

>>13243217
>school made me, actually, love literature
You're lucky.

They had me read The Taming of the Shrew which imo is one of the shittiest Shakespeare plays. Years later I read Julius Caesar and I love Shakespeare now.

They had me read Of Mice and Men and I hated it. Years later I read Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and now I love Steinbeck.

The only book school had me read that I loved was 1984, but that was in my senior year of high school but I already enjoyed reading thanks to genre fiction.

[Anonymous No.13245151]

>>13243193
Because they want slaves who thirst for annihilation. They condition common people since a young age to hate the idea of any thinking through public education.

[Anonymous No.13245404]

>>13245151
Thirst for annihilation, eh?

[Anonymous No.13245592]

>>13243193
Because it takes time, mental effort, and after 12+ years of public education, they no doubt hate anything that reminds them of that hellhole.

[Anonymous No.13247222]

>>13245592
Most of normies have great memories fom their school time tho

[Anonymous No.13247230]

>>13247222
How many of those are from reading books?

[Anonymous No.13247274]

>>13247230
Most of them are like yikes this shit boring when they read.
But the thing is that they don't even try and it's making me angry

[Anonymous No.13247361]

Maybe modern English teachers in k-12 purposely teach literature poorly as to make sure kids don’t read.

[Anonymous No.13248108]

>>13243193
>MUH NORMIES REEEEEEEEEE
You're a moron, but one of the reasons for it is either that they never had an interest in reading in the first place, which is true for most people that don't read, or that reading was presented to them in most boring way possible, which is how it's usual done in schools so there's that.

[Anonymous No.13248113]

>>13248108

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!/qKRybJPyoB No.13248485]

>>13247361
I believe you

[Anonymous No.13248838]

>>13243466
It's not a matter of need, it's a matter of want. People don't read because they lack motivation, not opportunity. Of the 4+ hours a day that they waste in social media or entertainment they do not devote one hour, not even five or ten minutes, to reading or edification. It's because they are offered too much choice and too easy a path to leisure, not too difficult, that they don't read.

[Anonymous No.13249118]

That's how the system works. Reading is a burden for society, as it keeps you away from consuming. Why keep yourself busy a week with a book when you can watch dozens of movies instead? Or play videogames or do any other mindless activity. So it is, unironically, capitalism's fault. With this I'm not saying that it would be different if we were commies.

[Anonymous No.13249414]

>>13249118
How are movies and video games mindless activities? That's a very hypocritical statement.

[Anonymous No.13250015]

>>13249414
How are they not?

[Anonymous No.13250044]

>>13243217
>My anecdotal evidence is valid
>I read
Ok buddy

[Anonymous No.13250045]

>>13243999
>find literature
It's not fucking hidden you pleb. Every single child is exposed to literature in school and is taught how to read. Just accept that not everyone is the same.