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Imagine books were never invented, you would never know that this guy (and others) lived. You could only get your knowledge from people around you. Think about the smartest man you personally know that lives around you, that would be your teacher. Now compare him to the smartest people that you can buy books from. They fucking pale in comparison.
Without books you would be doomed to mediocracy.

>> No.21413675
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>>21413665
I don't think so. People would simply pass on their wisdom through oral tradition and practices rather than through text. Mediocre people are doomed to mediocrity one way or another.

>> No.21413687

>>21413665
Well this board taught me that listening an audiobook is in a whole other category as reading a book, so I’d be fine.

>> No.21413689

>>21413665
his books should be burned

>> No.21413690

>>21413665
that's the rationalist's propaganda

and i would be happy not knowing about an atheist like Nietzche, since he is a pure product of the atheist enlightenment. Also there would not be any secular enlightenment without books in the first place, ie hell on earth.

>> No.21413700

>>21413665
>Imagine books
Speaking of which please help me find a pirated copy of rudolf II and his world

>> No.21413701

>>21413689
>>21413690
Midwits detected. Any smart person will give great people credit, even if they disagree with him. For example, Schopenhauer praised Kant, even though he has a whole section in WWR dedicated just to debunk him.

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“‘Universal compulsory education, of the type introduced at the end of the 19th century, has not fulfilled expectations by producing happier and more effective citizens; on the contrary, it has created readers of the yellow press and cinema-goers’ (Karl Otten). A master who can himself not only read, but also write good classical Latin and Greek, remarks that ‘there is no doubt of the quantitative increase in literacy of a kind, and amid the general satisfaction that something is being multiplied it escapes enquiry whether the something is profit or deficit.’ He is discussing only the ‘worst effects’ of enforced literacy, and concludes: ‘Learning and wisdom have often been divided; perhaps the clearest result of modern literacy has been to maintain and enlarge the gulf.'”

https://tomajjavidtash.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/the_bugbear_of_literacy_by_ananda_coomaraswamy.pdf