I was doing some checks on my library until I decided to see my shelf with the books I've read and it was heartbreaking Some stats:Books read - 69Average number of pages: 420Books unfinished: 382Should I even bother? I quit college to be a full time book reader but I cannot bring myself to finish most books I read.
>>25347527>I quit college to be a full time book readeryour pic related is on point
>>25347527I feel the similar Time reading>4 yearsBooks read>203Favorite books>The Jungle, Grapes of Wrath, GerminalIt's time to admit defeat.
>>25347527>I quit college to be a full time book readerYOU WHAT?!?
>>25347571What is college for? Does it make you smarter? I didn't learn anything in High School and assumed college would be more of the same. Everyone I know went for STEM fields or nursing and dropped out to join a trade. Would taking an entire 2 year class on Virgil really improve my life? Especially considering they force you to take extra courses like math and modern day social politics, which have nothing to do with what I'm interested in.
>>25347580Buddy. Pal. Friend. It isn't the quitting collage part that is absurd. It's the "full time book reader" part that is absurd.
>>25347584What's absurd about pursuing your passion? It doesn't matter if he never becomes a writer as long as he enjoys his life. Although it seems like OP is mistaken in his true interests.
>>25347527>I quit college to be a full time book readerKino but you needed a PLAN, OP. You should've, and should, focus on reading philosophies and/or theologies as such literature can change your world with proper study. Even those Critique of Pure Reason Kantian-onlyists have more fulfilling days with reading.
>>25347590>What's absurd about pursuing your passion?In context of this thread. A whole lot of things actually. > It doesn't matter if he never becomes a writer as long as he enjoys his lifeHe said nothing about writing books. He said he reads books full time. He also doesn't seem to be enjoying his life, or even particularly passionate about the way he lives it. So your point is moot to begin with. Like did you read the thread at all or are just here to spout platitudes that don't apply in context?
>>25347553No issue here. I was studying sociology anyway
>>25347619>did you read the threadI was going to ask you the same thing. Clearly, OP must be reading for some purpose, whether it's simply enjoyment or a greater reason. I said in my last sentence that he was mistaken in his pursuit. Please, for the love of God, kill yourself.
>>25347649>Please, for the love of God, kill yourself.You first idiot.
>>25347527It sounds more like you were looking for an excuse to NEET, and now you have to face the reality that you don't particularly care for reading.
What a retard
>>25347630That's a shame. The world needs more sociologists willing to go on places like 4chan. Most of them wouldn't touch it with a mile long pole. Gender studies may have the most ultra woke students, but sociology is second.
>>25347604Any recommendations?
>>25347779Collected works of Plato, trans. Thomas Taylor (assuming you've haven't read all of them). Aristoteles Organon, the categories are extremely important for medieval philosophies.
>>25347580College is for getting a slip of paper saying you did it. It’s also for forming relationships and exchanging ideas with your peers. Whatever snobbery there is about college not making you smart it’s a low iq bar that’s cut off the bottom quarter you had to exist alongside in highschool. Aside from learning the basics of academia and all the ways it works and doesn’t work, there’s ample time to do that reading in college. If you’re actually as smart as you pretend to be the required reading is just a couple of days of your time leaving most of the week to read whatever you want, while actively investing in a degree.
>>25347770>The world needs more sociologists willing to go on places like 4chan. Most of them wouldn't touch it with a mile long pole.Elaborate
>69>420grow up
>>253502871/2After Elon Musk's (partial) liberation of Twitter/X, it may not be as significant, because now, you can read all sorts of things that'd would be banned there before. But still, 4chan is probably the most "freedom of speech" oriented website of all. If you want to be a sociologist, and study social behaviour, you need to know the extremes. You need to know the extreme opinions and their reasoning, you need to know the brutality humans are capable of, like the gore videos. How does torture, rape or bestiality look like. But there's a problem with people that are into humanitarities. You can hear them often say something like: "I'm not into math, I'm a people person" but hat's a huge red flag. Math trains logic and abstract thinking. People, whose academic trajectory can be tracked by where they tried to avoid math, are used to avoid the ability to use pure logic and analyse things/people by critical optics. The "people person" types are often the most sheltered people on Earth. They don't have the imagination for the extremes, which results into immature empathy. It's for example the pathological sense of shifting blame from individuals, to the "system". They are the exact people, who shift the blame of the black crime, to the "historic oppression" of whites. The students are like that, the professors are like that and in the end, the schools are producing people like that.
>>253502872/2I know some sociology graduates, and they seem like they truly know just a fraction of human nature, like their brain couldn't comprehend anything too unpleasant. The most extreme things they know, are things like the "Unit 731" book. They listen to "imagine" by John Lenon unironically. They are absolutely pathologically naive. I'm not very proud of spending time on site like 4chan, but naivety is one thing that it cured me from. After few years here I think I'm more capable of studying sociology, or politology, or psychology or human nature in general, than someone, who avoids place like this, for it being too negative, too sexist, too anti-semitic, too racist, too pornographic, too brutal or whatever. Also, and that's a big also, they don't have the capacity for the opossite, and that's the human excellence. How does someone become a modern classical composer, how does someone write brothers karamazov. What's the reasoning, what's the mindset and the emotions of geniuses. They imagine some sort of "good person" idea, and that's the most their childish brain can do. Yes, deeply understanding human nature can be traumatic, but if you're serious in that, you should be willing to accept that possibility. Current modern woke sociologists aren't willing to do that. They put ukraine flag on their profile picture, send money to black lives matter, and share something embarrasing about Donald Trump. They are like sheep, that think that they're the shephards, that can lead the herd. They can't. They're still sheep, and sadly, the most naive ones. Amongst the wokism, students of sociology are the most fanatic ones.
>>25350529>>25350537well said nigger
>>25350529You're right that math is abstract, abstract in the sense that it is simple and disconnected from concrete experience. It's so easy that a machine can do it; Hegel writes about this at length. It's not shocking to me at all that so many of the right-wing zoomers here appear to be STEM majors.>black retard>white smart>jew bad>christian good>women bad>men goodThis is indeed highly abstract thinking. Some of you (probably not the mouthbreather I'm replying to) might enjoy Hegel's short early essay "Who Thinks Abstractly?" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/se/abstract.htm
