/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17819511]

>the average American reads only 4 books a year
How do we make reading cool again bros

[Anonymous No.17819519]

You don’t. You can’t. Information technology destroyed the possibility for any good books to be read and for people to read books. That’s just the reality.

[Anonymous No.17819530]

>>17819511
Last I remember the average American only read 2 books a year, and even then they only had to read part way through the book for it to technically count. What are your sources OP?

[Anonymous No.17819542]

>>17819530
https://www.rd.com/article/do-you-read-more-books-than-average-american/

[None !.qBntzNNjY No.17819563]

>>17819511
That's more than I do, average American moggs me

[Anonymous No.17819577]

i doubt the average american has read 4 in his entire life... assigned books in school don't count!

[Anonymous No.17819651]

>>17819511
I don't know, but I think not being a smug prick and mocking people for reading for entertainment might be good start.

[Anonymous No.17819684]

>>17819651
You read for entertainment? Lmao what a nerd

[Anonymous No.17819692]

>>17819684
I'M NOT A NERD

[Anonymous No.17819706]

I was on a roll this year until I picked up Gravity's Rainbow. I got to page 40, dropped it, and haven't read anything since.

[Anonymous No.17820310]

>>17819511
I remember hearing that the best life outcome indicator for a child's future is how many books the parents of that child have in their home. Reading has never been cool, and you're never going to make it cool, the best bet if you wanted Americans to start reading is educating them so that they understand the benefits to reading, but good luck educating your typical American.

[Anonymous No.17820387]

>>17819511
Pewdiepie tried.

[Super elitist No.17820448]

You have to understand that this is just a return to norm.
Mass literacy is a recent anomaly, a break from the historical patter.
The sacred arts of reading and writing were, for most of human history, reserved for the small caste of priests and rulers.
It is only because of the well-meaning but misguided efforts of some secular humanists that the democratization of education has taken place.
What the Enlightenment philosophers of that era ignored is that the rabble has no use, and more to the point, no desire for art and education.
Why is it that the box office dwarfs museum admissions, or that Youtube is a more popular pastime than reading?
It's quite simply because the lower castes are content with their bread and circuses.
Writing and reading are sacred arts reserved for the intellectual caste, democratizing them is nothing more than making profane that which is divine.

[Anonymous No.17820476]

>>17820448
You’d be an illiterate pig farmer without it though.

[Anonymous No.17820486]

>>17820448
>democratizing them
Shouldn't we try? I don't think we should resign ourselves to the masses being illiterate. We've come a long way since the 19th century, whose to say if we're lucky we're we could be in the 22nd century. If there is to be an improvement by then it rests in us educating the masses, not just pacifying them with soma.

[Anonymous No.17820496]

>>17820486
>we're
where

[Anonymous No.17820518]

>>17820387
What, did he give up?

[Anonymous No.17820526]

>>17820448

[Anonymous No.17820532]

Yes, and they are all books similar to pic related.

[Anonymous No.17820540]

>>17820448
>that which is divine.
You're right >>17820526
This post does reek of fedora

[Anonymous No.17820542]

>>17819511
>the average American reads
Uh... False!

[Super elitist No.17820569]

>>17820486
Those of aristocratic character will naturally gravitate towards the written word. As for the masses being pacified by soma, what needs to be encouraged is action, not reading.
For just as it is the divine duty of rulers to govern fairly and wisely, so too, is the divine duty of the peasantry to overthrow the ruling caste when it has grown corrupt, effeminate and decadent.

[Anonymous No.17820570]

>>17820542
>Uh... False!
This
It's the readers on the extreme of the bell curve dragging everyone else up

[Anonymous No.17820763]

>>17820570
Well, the study said on average, based on booksales alone, Americans read 12 books a year, but when the survey answers are actually taken into account, the average drops down to 4. Also, a good percentage of that includes audiobooks, which shouldn't count at all.

You're mostly right though, a quarter of Americans haven't read a single book in the last year, including in audiobook form.

[Anonymous No.17820789]

>>17819511
Good! More books for me!

[Anonymous No.17822273]

bump

[Anonymous No.17822422]

Imagine reading only around 268 books in your life. Sad, I need to read as much as I can before I return to the void, at least I read more this year.

[Anonymous No.17822436]

>>17820789
femboy anime stirner got me like

[Anonymous No.17822474]

>>17819511
I haven't read a single book since 2019. Not american though.

[Anonymous No.17822487]

>>17820569
>For just as it is the divine duty of rulers to govern fairly and wisely
lmao

[Anonymous No.17822490]

>>17820518
Yes

[Anonymous No.17822507]

>>17820476
Both of my parents are published authors, my great grandmother was a poet and hero of the Soviet Union, my great great grandfather was a famous author and philosopher, and his father was a famous warrior poet adored by the Tsar.