"Read a book" is an insult of low moral character, for people who read like two a month and think this makes them special, or read by prescription.
Read shitloads of books, and anyway don't try to use your self-declared erudition as an insult. Plebs.
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"I've read some books and therefore I am better than you," is a mark that you haven't read nearly, even remotely close to, enough.
Go read a few thousand more, so you'll hopefully realize the value of shutting the fuck up about your reading to people who have no interest in it.
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I've read 100s of books on antique Europe and never try to pass myself off as more than a curious idiot, because I'm not. I know jack shit about antiquity.
It's amazing how often people will read maybe three books on something and then declare themselves "well-read." Fuck that.
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Reading isn't, and has never rightfully been, some sort of ticket to legitimacy. It's just a thing you do for your own edification and/or education.
It doesn't make you wise, smart, correct or even at all in the ball park. At least not by itself.
Still, read more. It's fun.
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Anyway, that's my wrathful practice for the night over and done with. Have fun, y'all.
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Postscript: I've forgotten more about meditation and gaming (sad) and indeed reading itself than I remember about any other topic I've ever read about, no matter how much.
Why? Did a few thousand hours of each, plus minus. That's how you actually *learn* most things.
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