actually pretty much agree with this in the sense that I wish I had a problem with "reading too much". I have the opposite problem: I think I think too much and read too little
long been a deep insecurity that I haven't read enough books and I don't know how to deal with this
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RT @nosilverv
you should read very little. wht you read either does or does not affect what you do. if it doesn't discard it. if it does you should read just e…
https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1351587599945764865
I have a big list of books that keeps growing faster than I will ever be able to catch up, like the achilles and turtle thing except i'm the turtle trying to catch up with achilles
I also like to read articles and browse the web and listen to podcasts and so on but I don't feel like it's "learning" unless it's reading a big book wherein I struggle with it because attention span is fucked
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RT @egocv
@miftah___ra @nosilverv Read, I guess. I like to bathe my mind in other people's thoughts constantly; twitter, podcasts, books, articles, music-- never give my own thoughts a chance to breathe
https://twitter.com/egocv/status/1351626813374689282
I like to say shit like this but actually i'm often scared that people I currently think are totally wrong are actually totally right and it's because I Haven't Read The Book
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RT @miftah___ra
@erienneyoung nonono ur right
one thing i really hate is when someone whos really into philosophy tells me "i dont know what i'm talking about" bcs i haven't read some Book
when i'm trying to explain MY life, my subjective experience. instit…
https://twitter.com/miftah___ra/status/1338907926514167808
when I read a book two things could happen:
1) it affects me profoundly and I think about it for months afterwards, while rereading and obsessively notetaking
2) it bores me and I leave it unfinished
this seems to be the "right" way (and I agree) but also every now and then I will talk to someone who is convinced the reason I don't agree with him is because I don't understand something crucial that can only be understood by Reading the Book, regardless of what i think
the fucked thing is the only way to prove whether or not this is true is to Read the Book
the even more fucked thing is I *care* to know this because I might be wrong and I want to know if so. but taken to its logical conclusion this seems to compel me to finish my book list and also read all the other books
which seems suspiciously like "learning for its own sake", the useless self-defeating kind
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RT @qorprate
the fetish of "learning for its own sake" is ultimately a capitalist idea, reducing to the mere accumulation of ideas or knowledge, seen as valuable yet fungible
https://twitter.com/qorprate/status/1349120443513516034
it doesn't help that I often hear "what youre talking about sounds like such and such theory" when I talk about random ideas I've been thinking about because it gives me the illusion that I have that level of intuition (this is not a brag but a self-own)
in some twisted way I feel like going out of my way to LEARN ALL THE THINGS would be like "giving in" to this insecurity, not even mentioning that learning all the things is impossible in the first place
slightly related other thing that annoys me: when people say "oh you don't have to read XX" or worse, "oh god don't read XX it's Bad"
yeah *you* would say that because you read it you absolute fuck what are you trying to hide from me
might never read a book again if people keep brilliantly validating my laziness like this
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RT @goblinodds
i was too panicky to work yesterday so i made a rant video
https://youtu.be/oyl_5_cxGdw
https://twitter.com/goblinodds/status/1360315785164558340
that said I am still quite certain that there is no knowledge that absolutely has to be acquired from reading a certain thing, and that an illiterate bum can be smarter and wiser than the most erudite scholar in the ways that matter