Reading was the worst-performing category in this year's PISA report. Pathetic. You're not some illiterate zoomer, are you, anon? Tell me it's true that you read at least an hour of literary classics every night
>>542333057i know right? what did you think of crime and punishment by dostoevsky op?
>>542333057it’s all jewish and gay
Reading is boring af, watching boomers play video games is fun and requires no brainpower
>>542333057Reading is a meme. You are letting some other dudes thoughts enter your brain uncontested. Its actually pretty gay if you think about it.Just because some other retard wrote their thoughts on dead trees, does not mean they were good or useful thoughts. Just looks a Marx.
>>542333057Zoomers are too retarded to read.
>>542333057A huck a huck.Breeeehhhh.BREEEEEEEAAHHHHHHHHHH.Low Literacy Rates: Reports from the NCES indicate that roughly 23% of Black adults demonstrate low literacy skills (falling into the "below basic" tier). Historical Context: Complete illiteracy has dropped dramatically over the last century, moving down from roughly 80% of the Black population in 1870 following historical anti-literacy laws. Welcome to the 3rd World. It will never go back to being a White nation. It will eventually "average out" to being a disgusting, beige, stupid mass of dickbrained retardation and casual violence.
Delphi completehttps://thehiddenbay.com/torrent/20381749/Delphi_Complete_Works_[126_ebooks][EPUB_MOBI]_-_HYPATIA More bookshttps://thehiddenbay.com/user/rip222/Books, mixed politics (because unlike asshole Democrats, I think you should be able to make up your own mind?)https://thehiddenbay.com/user/workerbee/ Good Weird Movies https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?pid=11878945 More movieshttps://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?pid=11298075. THE BIG THREE (imo)!!!Stars of the Lid (10/10, better than Eno ambient, every single release is amazing!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2608573 Dead Can Dance (10/10 timeless tribal, first 4 releases!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4400522 ASOIAF (10/10 audiobook, better than NPR radio propaganda, on my 200th relisten, at least!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5536103 OTHERS: The Cure (decadent or romantic? Early is better, best, The Glove, Mixed Up, Pornography)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3260091
>>542333057To many alternatives that give you dopamine and if they want to know aything about anything you can find out in a second.
>>542333300>You are letting some other dudes thoughts enter your brain uncontested.False. Reading is active. Reading passively is basically impossible for men.
>>542333057AI will literally take over everything like the fucking skynet, and you want me to spend time looking at a fucking paper with intimate thoughts from another man? We're all going to die, go have fun with stupid shit, you can stop pretending you like books now, it's over.
>>542333057Those are extremely homosexual bookends
>>542333245I haven't read it yet. I've read The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Gambler
>>542333496They're Italian-designed, made in Italy from genuine oak and Matera tuff stone. You're the only homosexual here
>>542333057>Why don't zoomers read anymore?Because they can't read. You can be happy if your average zoomer understands a very very basic color coded textless image instruction aimed at toddlers after 20-50 tries and he might be able to repeat the process successfully on his own after 500 repetitions.
>>542333245>>542333509Crime and Punishment is overrated. The Idiot is the true peak sleeper of Dostoevsky.
>>542333057Zoomers just like to stare.
>>542333057Because they are given tablets and phones at very young age. It fry their attention's pawn, maybe permanently...
IN ADDITION:CivilWarLand in Bad Decline...is the 1996 debut fiction collection byGeorge Saunders, consisting ofsix short stories and one novella. The book is a dark, satirical masterpiece set in near-future, dystopian versions of White America. It explores the soul-crushing nature ofunchecked crony capitalism, corporate bureaucracy, White shaming and commercialized entertainment. Summary of "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (Title Story)The titular short story takes place in a crumbling, poorly maintained Civil War-themed amusement park.The Conflict:The unnamed narrator, a desperate family man, handles menial and managerial tasks for his greedy, unscrupulous nigger boss, Mr. Alsuga. When local teenage gangs (YNs) begin vandalizing the failing park, Alsuga hires Sam—a deeply traumatized, violent, and unstable Vietnam War veteran. (White)—as a security operative.The Decline:Sam goes far beyond basic defense and begins brutally murdering the nigger teenagers. Mr. Alsuga covers up the murders. Complicit out of financial desperation and a fear of losing his job, the narrator tries to look the other way.The Climax:As the violence spirals out of control, the narrator finally attempts to go to the police, but Sam turns his violence on the narrator. Ironically, the park is also haunted by actual ghosts of a 19th-century family who once farmed the land, standing as a sad, ridiculous contrast to the manufactured corporate horror built on top of them. Other Notable Stories in the Collection“The 400-Pound CEO”:Centers on Jeffrey, an obese and severely mistreated employee at a fraudulent raccoon-removal company. After accidentally killing his abusive boss, he briefly runs the company with sudden authority before facing the consequences....[1/2]
>>542333794[2/2]Bounty” (The Novella):Takes up the second half of the book and is set in a future America where a genetic class of mutated humans called "Flaweds" are forced into servitude. The protagonist, who has claws for toes, works at a medieval theme park called BountyLand. When his sister is bought by a wealthy suitor, he escapes the park to track her down, navigating an oppressive underground network.Literary critics and readers widely praise the book as a groundbreaking work that altered the trajectory of modern American satire.Key Praises Prescient Satire:Reviewers frequently point out how Saunders’s 1996 vision of corporate greed, "business-speak," and commodified spaces accurately predicted the hyper-consumerism of contemporary nigger cattle reality.The "Horror and Hilarity" Balance:Major authors like Zadie Smith and Thomas Pynchon have praised Saunders for his unique style—blending bleak, grotesque tragedy with genuinely laugh-out-loud, absurd humor.
>>542333651You're literally peacocking over your gay Italian bookends, it's quite obvious you're a habitual cock sucker.
In other news, why is it so hard to find decent book cases now? It's all chipboard shit that's priced as if it's real wood. Every book case I own is taken from some dead old person's house clearance.
This is what I'm reading right now, from the 1950s.
>>542333057may we see the ethnic breakdown for the scores?
>>542333480>we're all going to die so act like a nigger and gulp sugar, rob people, get stds and act like a brainless moron "while you can"!In fact, the exact opposite. If we were about to meet infinity., we should behave accordingly.
I sometimes read erotic books. Porn doesn't do it anymore more me so I turned to explicit language erotic books about "impaling" women
>>542333057most of those dont even have pictures in them.
>>542333496>>542333828Anon projecting so much he starts including freudian words like peacocking.They're just bookends, mate. You good?
>>542333057Have you seen the books coming out now dei slop focused entirety on women readers.
>>542333300Kekd and checkd nice digis>>542333057I can't imagine the absolute shit state of modern literature.
>>542333057We would get along, I have most of these books and we like the same foreign authorsalas, we shall never meet
>>542334372If only it was possible to read old books.
>>542333300>You are letting some other dudes thoughts enter your brain uncontested.In reading it's more contested than with other media. When you whatch movies, videos they are more fore fed Into your mind. Roughest form is these zoomers short videos with words subtitles. Really maeks you think.With reading you control pacing, you can pause think over author point, critique and reject it accept in your mind, you like driver of your own car, you have a road but you at the driving wheel.
I can't believe this Spanish anon is peacocking about his extremely homosexual bookends. Stupid fucking idiot Spanish fag who probably has a really nice yummy thick looking cock too what a fucking homo.
>>542333057You're only missing Brideshead Revisited to complete the reactionary trilogy
>>542334594It's also more active just in the actual "consumption" of it. You can't just imbibe the written word by looking at it. You have to, whether you realise you're doing it or not, analyse each symbol, its relation to other symbols in groups (words), groups in relations to other groups (paragraphs).
>>542333057because being an intellectual only makes you suffer more. There is no light at the end of the 50 year of wageslavery tunnel when you live on a plantation run by sociopathic pedophiles
>>542333057>pristine spinesHeh...
>>542334953>because being an intellectual only makes you suffer more.Sometimes a bit of study is necessary to cultivate discernment.Properly ordered intellectualism leads to higher order Apprehension - it points you toward God, then an ironic and eventual emptying of the mind. But for most people that initial study is all part of the process.
>>542335319It's very difficult to use pure discernment to overcome physical problems like a lack of force, energy and capital, especially since the system is designed to destroy your mind and obliterate your free time, thus directly nullifying your only advantage since the spiritual mind needs the material. Inb4 schizo cope about how you can meditate during your lunch break at Aldi. The plantation has been set up since before your birth and perfected across millennia down to a science, like animal husbandry. It's anti-human and anti-intellectual. Feel free to try though.
>>542336262>It's very difficult to use pure discernment to overcome physical problemsObviously you must apply yourself in physical arenas and take action too. But higher apprehension is the ultimate goal of intellectual effort, all things considered. Still, we have our lives and trials in the interim to deal with - that is true.>Inb4 schizo cope about how you can meditate during your lunch break at Aldi. I don't have to wagie thanks to success in finance markets (that I motivated myself to study independently). I've spoken with anon like you time and again, and it's always one long dirge of learned helplessness. You've grown too comfortable feeling sorry for yourself.
>>542333245Breddy gud
>>542333057unless you carefully rested every single one of those books on a book stand, none of those books have ever been read
>>542333300>>542333293>>542333271I forget that I share I space with people on the left side of the bell curve.
>>542333057there are no words to express how happy i am that i graduated school right before they started using laptops in classrooms. i knew that was gonna cause a lot of damage.
>>542333057Reading is for faggots, jews, and women.
>>542333057they use ai to do that for them
