Becoming an Intellectual

If you would just lurk for one fucking day before posting, you'd realize we have this thread every day you brainlet POS
saged and hidden ffs

>>9665721
I have never seen a thread like this.

>>9665715
What makes you think we are intelligent or valuable?

>>9665768
Well, do you know a forum where I could better post this content? I have usually assumed book worms to be intellectual.

>>9665774
try REddit r/books, the perfect place for bookworm nerds such as ourselves

The best advice I can give you is that thirty years from now you will either be someone with an interrelated and holistic personality that flows in and out of the cultural and philosophical streams you've experienced, or you'll be a guy who consumes stock experiences through the monthly video game release or who is watching the twentieth remake of the same fucking blockbuster movie they release every year.

The practicalities of how exactly to read things or stay motivated aren't nearly as important as deciding what your goal is. I can tell you that once you hit a certain threshold of culture and learnedness, it all connects together and reflects on itself. You become a unique individual, and every time you read something new, you read it "with" all the other stuff you've read up until that point, and all that stuff informs what you're reading, and vice versa.

The average joe these days just re-consumes the same experience over and over again with slightly different wrapping paper. When you're 40, you can either be doing that, doing essentially the exact same thing that you were doing today, or you can be a work in progress that is reaching new and exciting milestones and opening up new and exciting vistas every day.