It's hard for me not to see a dislike of reading as a sign of either stupidity or a short attention span. Sometimes both. Is that a bad way to think?
No, but enjoying reading has to be learned.
>>25386982>Is that a bad way to think?Yes. Normal, happy people have no reason to read. They have no reason to. You might think they're boring, and that's fine. Wretched subhumans also do not read, but reading wouldn't help them anyhow.>>25387527>enjoying reading has to be learnedNonsense. You do it because you have to. Otherwise, it's just performative make-believe - you hoping it would somehow make you smarter or cooler.
>>25386982Literacy is something that can be taught. Unlike what many think it's not simply a matter of reading to get better at reading, nor is it simply a matter of intelligence. There is a deliberate policy of making people have low literacy. When you have low literacy reading is not enjoyable. But you can increase your literacy, by studying the Trivium. Short attention span can contribute to not enjoying reading, but that is also something you can improve.
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>>25386982It's unhealthy. In the vast majority, reading is a habit inculcated into them during childhood. It's a 'bad' way to think in that someone isn't inherently more or less intelligent for enjoying pleasure reading.You might argue that anyone with a certain amount of natural curiosity would be drawn to it, but the medium itself isn't all high culture literary fiction and academically rigorous non-fiction. The overwhelmingly vast majority of works being read are shopgirl romances and popular true crime by women, airport thrillers and ghostwritten autobiographies by men. These days a lot of it is even worse, abysmal webnovel Lit-RPG and online machine translated xianxia being inhaled by 12 year old boys in place of the male oriented young adult fiction of the past which is no longer published.On the other hand, you might turn your nose up at people only interested in movies as a 'lesser' medium, but they have exactly the same division of 'high art' vs commercial pleb slop as we do, and the same presumably goes for all creative mediums.
