People tend to have an elitist attitude regarding books, considering them to be a better use of time than video games or TV. But is that really true? For all of the time you have spent on reading books, what did you really gain?
Depends on the book I think
living is a waste of time desu senpai
>>25245888All is vanity, Anon. Even books. I am sure that you are better off reading books in your free time then say, jerking off to anime and playing World of Warcraft, but even then, does it really matter once you are 90 years old and senile??
kind of a similar sentiment I was talking about in this thread >>25245340What I've been thinking about lately is that you need to be in the right headspace to take advantage of something. Advice, information, entertainment, etc. the right book at the wrong time can leave you with not a whole lot, however at the right time it can change your life. The thing that sets you up to truly understand and take advantage of information advice inspiration is life experience. On this view, ff you spend all your time reading, you will get nothing out of it and it wont be much better than video games.
>>25245888video games and TV are relatively restrained artforms, because of the budget/time/cooperation necessary to make them. they have to appeal to and be made by many people, which makes the results less interesting and less the product of a singular vision. all the things like detail, originality and subtlety that a general audience cares little about in favor of easy and conventional emotional manipulation are usually sacrificed. they are also younger mediums which means not only are there naturally less examples of something truly unique and well crafted, but the language of their mediums are less developed and sophisticated. there are many exceptions, of course, but there are simply many more great books than there are great TV series (especially the more serialized less episodic ones, which tend to be more conventional) or great video games.all of this is only the case if you have an artistic mindset of enjoying someone masterfully and intricately create something creative that will make you feel things you haven't. if you're looking for wisdom or lessons, then the value of books are overrated.
>>25245888It's only a waste of time of you perceive it as such.If you are a competitive e-sport professional or you make a living by writing reviews for games then gaming is totally not a waste of time for you while some bodybuilder might think that games are totally useless. Apply the same logic to books.It's all a matter of perspective and priorities in life, which is why I think that there's no such thing as wasting time or wasting your life.
>>25245888Books of all kinds allow you to connect with other great minds and see how they thought, perceive me and reasoned and integrate bits of them into yourself In a world of banal extrovert fucking piles where parents let government lesbians render their kids retarded for 12 years, it's the only way for the intelligent to stay sane and tune their instrument.
>>25245888As far as social life goes, serious reading is actively counterproductive for precisely the same reason that books have this mystique around them compared to TV, viz. that serious literature has largely fallen out of the Culture Industry. The neckbeard who plays Starcraft all day and goes around wearing a Starcraft graphic tee at least has a conversational hook for people he might meet in the wild, maybe even a fellow nerd girl, but I am never going to form a social connection because I like Negri's reading of Spinoza, and anyone who would even talk about that 'in the wild' in the first place is probably insufferable
