Is it pretentious to read literature?

>>7635421
Depends on why you're doing it.

>>7635433

perfect answer

up to whose opinion we are talking about

If you use the words "pleb" and "patrician" (even if you're sort of being ironic) you are pretentious

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>>7635421
Yes, it's pretty much intellectual masturbation.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, though.

Only if you make it to be

>>7635421
this image is really cool, where is it from?

>>7636197
China

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>>7635461

Pretty pleb opinion.

It's pretentious to read in the first place, that's why I'm not teaching my son to be literate

Yes, being pretentious is good.

>>7635421
It is pretentious to live.

>>7635421

It is pretentious to read literature pretentiously.

If you're all over other people telling them how much you read literature it will come off as pretentious, just read it and shut the fuck up - nobody cares what you read, even /lit/.

>>7635461
>if you apply meaningless labels to people you are [meaningless label]

I think it's pretentious not to

>Why should I read what old dead people wrote? Who cares lol