>Reading for its own sake has become a very perverted subculture, like speed running video games.

Speed running video games and reading are not remotely close to being the same thing, retard.

A mathematician can read Galileo.
An Economist can read Aristotle.
A physicist can read Marx.

Reading isn't about min-maxxxing your neural firings. For those very few who still enjoy it, reading is about satisfying curiosity and maybe discovering something about oneself which might make one more adept at 'being' oneself, better at making choices, and better at doing whatever it is that one is doing with one's life.

Just because the academic world is filled with biohackers and techtards with the emotional depth of a shitcoin, who grew up on MOBAs and energy drinks, who possess insane IQs while somehow also having the reading comprehension ability of Whoopie Goldberg's aborted fetus, this does not crown them the paragons of "serious intellectual inquiry".

Bill Gates reads. Jeffery Epstien reads (present tense). Bill Burns reads. Putin reads. Fauci reads. Satan himfuckingself has the best library in all of God's creation. Everyone who's anyone that has influence over your life has been and is an avid reader. If you want to resist being blindly influenced by the dumbass rhetoric and the bs ideology people like that shit down your gullet, you better be too. Otherwise, enjoy being part of the monoglob and getting G-rpd by Elon's bots.

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