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9129413 No.9129413 [Reply] [Original]

When did you realise that the ideal of being well read was a harmful meme propagated by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex?

"Good peon... Focus on the barely disguised narcissistic memoirs of some dead person... Books are mind enriching... Consume more books... Never mind that the information age has made a mockery of information's value as a commodity among people... You're just so curious about the world and such a voracious reader, aren't you, peasant...

That psychologist's new 400 page book based on lab experiments and that could be summarised in 5 pages has been read by most people at your local cafe! Imagine the embarrassment if they find out you haven't read it... You're right, enjoyment is an immature state... That continental philosopher has such profound and non trivial insights about our society, it seems like you now have another 12 books on your "must read" list in order to be well read... Don't forget the conservative tradition, that's another 20 books you must read... No, don't ask any meta-questions or ask whether they work within self referential citation ring systems with unfalsifiable theories and trivial insights; bad peasant! Your dinner party guests would be shocked to hear that!

This 1200 page post-modern masterpiece references 500 works that you must also read before you die... No, don't fall asleep while reading it! The cover quote calls it, "Frequently hilarious!" Maybe you haven't read enough to fully appreciate it?"

>> No.9129416

I just like reading books

>> No.9129417

no

>> No.9129440

>>9129413
stop watching Alex Jones

>> No.9129444

>>9129413
The point of being well-read is social capital, you idiot, not enrichment or whatever.

>> No.9129446

Actually if you're well read most (normie) people dismiss it because obviously you're no better than them and in fact probably worse because if you have the free time to read then you don't have an important job or do important things.

>> No.9129460

>>9129413
Holy...

>> No.9129462

i only read books so that i can stop looking at my computer screen

>> No.9129470

wtf?!?! I hate my brain now!!!

>> No.9129499

>>9129446
And yet they have the free time to mindlessly binge watch 5 Netflix series in one night while scarfing down takeout and sweets and what have you. I AM better than them.

>> No.9129526

>>9129416
>I just like reading books
...but... like... do... you? Do you really? How can you be sure?

>> No.9130565

>>9129413
5 page summaries only leave you able to parrot ideas, not understanding anything behind it. No good for conversation with others and having nothing substantial to think about on your own. References are perfectly acceptable and exist for people who care enough about the subject to dig deeper, you don't have to read them anymore than you have to read anything other than social media articles on the world and you don't have to challenge yourself, nobody is going to stop you from living like a dullard.

>> No.9130684

>>9129413
The Void always catches up to you OP, time to binge watch shows and drink until your turn to die. Maybe protest "the system" here and there to encourage yourself into believing you're not a fraud and that your life has some meaning.

Or just take the horsepill and shoot up for the rest of your short life. Easiest way to forget.

>> No.9130955

>>9129499
The difference is that their type doesn't boast about binge watching those series. They want to appear busy as it's a somehow positive trait. Some would even deny spending 6 hours a day doing nothing but playing videogames and watching shitseries when called out. When they do boast about it, you can be 99% sure they were memed into being a NEET or a "bipolar-autistic nerdy and asocial introvert with a fixation on physics and everything space-related".

Then here we are, reading, and being proud of it. To most, it's exactly the same as watching movies or playing video games, a form of entertainment, except "books are boring."

>> No.9131309

>>9129413
Considering most people barely read anything, and virtually nobody is even trying to be "well read," it's not a very successful meme. I hope the complex has diversified into porn or something.

>> No.9131355

We get it, you're too smart to read books. Just fuck off and stop posting about your academia-media industrial complex. Go write a lengthy manifesto about it, or better yet go stand at a busy intersection and yell about it to passersby