Is it wrong that I think reading makes me better than others, or is that pure narcissism? >When I see turbo normies and I know they haven't read half as much as me, I feel intense superiority and satisfaction
>>24774716Reading doesn’t necessarily make you better than others, but it does make you better than the version of yourself that doesn’t read.
surely you have trained your power of judgment to answer this yourself.
>>24774747Deep down I know the answer is yes.
>>24774716a little bit of narcissism is beneficial despite so many people saying otherwise.
it's classic slave morality cope.
I think people who aren't as financially successful as me are trash, so I can relate.
>>24774716The most important thing is to have sex with lots of beautiful women. This is the one thing you can be truly smug about, because everyone would trade their own "accomplishments" for the experience of fucking row after row, column after column, of plush big-titted bitches. After this comes accomplishment, physical health, wealth, and spiritual well-being, in that order. Reading a lot is somewhere in the gutter with being good at chess or something.
>i leech off other people's insights and shamelessly incorporate them into my worldview, pretending they belong to meFucking yikes. Dimwitted as fuck. The only acceptable books to read are on math and history.
>>24774716Think about it in 3rd person: does reading make someone a better person? Do you gain more respect for someone if you know he's a strong reader? If the answer is no, then you might be a bit of a narcissist. If the answer is yes, ask yourself why.
>>24774732Fpbp
The job of a writer is to write something for other people, to make a message out of his (or hers) thought.In most cases, there is no particular reason why a writer should have the opportunity to speak his mind to the masses. Most writers are not much more intelligent than the average reader, even so, this does not necessarily mean that his current thoughts are worth it.It is an open secret, although well preserved, that the job of a writer requires a certain degree of self-delusion.If your goal is to be a writer at the end, then you should keep your feeling of "supriority". Otherwise, it would be wise do adapt a more modest approach to the things.AS for ethical reasons, you shall be a person others like to have around.
comparing yourself to others and being smug is low IQ retard repulsive dumbass behavior, comparing your today's self to your past self, that's good self reflection and indicates how much progress you have made.
>>24774716better in terms of what? i'm still an incel after taking up reading as a hobby a year ago
>>24776763should have taken up fucking if getting laid is your goal unless you want to fuck a book
wow never realized how much that guy looks like bezos
>>24774716It is wrong. Pride should come from virtuous actions and accomplishments and I don't mean accomplishments like finishing a hard book, I mean doing something in real life.
>>24774732Exactly. Sound conclusion, anon.
>>24776827Like scoring with your sister?
Is this idea that everyone is "equal" some christcuck thing or? Its an objective truth that some people are better than others. Most people are literal cattle. Now whether reading itself moves you of that category is a diffrent matter. I think not.
>>24774716Yeah it's just narcissism. Reading doesn't make you better than other people
>>24776827>Pride should come from virtuous actionsNo.
>>24774716Reading itself doesn't make you better than anyone; anyone can read. It's what you transmute your reading into that can potentially make you better than some. Not reading at all makes you functionally subhuman, tho
