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Have you realised that the information age, with the huge amount of reading material, everything in English or translated to English, and vastly increased number of (sub-)media for books alone (physical, magazine, tablet, phone, e-reader, website, blog etc.), has destroyed the idea of being "well read"?
I think this for two reasons. First is the huge volume of stuff. You could read all day and never even read 1 % of all that "valuable" stuff. When it was 1600 and you could have read everything during your 3 years of formal education (more than 99 % of people) you could immediately join the intellectuals club. Now that's not true and it's demoralising.
The second reason is the killer. The idea of some sort of central planning bureau setting the list of required books is seen as farcical. We truly live in a much more multipolar world. Back in 1100 the Church told you to read the Greeks and the Bible and you are suddenly intelligent and well informed. There were no universities or companies or groups to tell you otherwise. These days, the huge increase in education means that everyone has an opinion and the arbitrariness of the "canon" has been exposed even to the most soody of pseudo intellectuals. Not only due to the multipolarisation within literature, but also the multipolarisation among activities. Who would claim that some Fields Medallist winning mathematician is an idiot because he hasn't read the Bible? It would take a high level of soodiness. But it would have been easy 1000 years ago.
Ultimately all this "well read" stuff was just a way for groups of people to signal social status / intellectualism or deriving other benefits by grouping their claimed interests together. We see it today when the academia-media-publishing industrial complex tells you that you have to read books or you're stupid. But this has been taken to a farcical new level now that writers like Tao Lin / Mira Gonzalez exist. It's also clear in other activities.
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you remain the worst poster on this site and I'm glad your life is miserable
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>>8932011
You must lead the most pathetic life imaginable
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=academia-media-publishing
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What is your endgame?
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>>8932011
>has destroyed the idea of being "well read"?
Who gives a fuck?
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>>8932011
>You could read all day and never even read 1 % of all that "valuable" stuff
Not after I discovered /lit/.
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>>8932038
Ummmmm... the /lit/ posters who propagate the ideas of "well read"edness through their relentless promotion of a "canon" and their demarcation of reading material according to medium, among others
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Hey it's academia-media-publishing industrial complex again! Hey you!
Now please go die in a fire. Be a martyr for your cause. We will always remember you, but only if you self-immolate. Otherwise we shall be forced to forget you.
>>8932028
Trolling. Lots of trolling.
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Reported for spamming.
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remember to sage when replying to this faggot's threads
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>>8932050
Do these /lit/ posters matter to you or impact your daily life in any meaningful way? If the answer is yes, you might have a problem.
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>>8932106
They are reflective of everyone else in the entire world.
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>>8932106
See his /r9k/-tier threads about being a worthless NEET. He's utterly hopeless. Has talked about suicide on a few occasions, though, which is promising
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>>8932108
If that is truly what you think, you are lost beyond saving.
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>>8932114
Well, in that case at least there is hope.
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"farcical" is really a terrible word to use, but I have a feeling that we'll be seeing it more often thanks to this guy's efforts alone. You guys don't know it, but /lit/ contains some of the brightest minds both young and old. Even if you read his posts only once, "farcical" sticks out and you have to google it. Even if you knew it before, his usage of it reinforces that it's okay to use the word. When you learn a new word via google, you ingrain that word deep into your subconscious through novelty.
All of us will be using farcical words from now on. We can't stop it. It's already inside us.
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>>8932128
this is him: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=retailcuck
>old, lives with parents, can't get a job
>fat, ugly, and uses /r9k/ vocabulary (Chad, Stacy, normie, etc)
>engineer homo
>autist
At least he recognizes how pathological his behavior is:
>'wasted gigantic amounts of time on internet and 4chan browsing'
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