i have a library in my home but no desire to read any of the books on it, how can i cure this disease?

>>24500182 (OP)
Pick any book off the shelf and start reading.

Sell it or donate it to the local library or burn it

imagine thinking not wanting to torture yourself is a disease

>>24500182 (OP)
I have this problem somewhat as well, but my time is too valuable to just pick one at random and force myself to sit and read.

I picked out three that I haven't read before that would aid me in my goals and I sit down and read out of one of them according to my mood when I have some free time. Lately it's been The Business of Shipping, but there's also The Game and The Trivium there as well.

>>24500307
>donate it to the local library
My local library only takes new books for example

Don’t. If you don’t have the bug, there’s no reason to read them. Ideally, you will be a well-educated person which requires a modicum of reading but beyond that, there’s no reason to read if you don’t like it. Beyond being hobbyist fascinations, novels can be a window to history. But that’s all. You don’t have to read them if you don’t want to. Books don’t even really matter to our culture anymore. There was a time where books were pretty much part and parcel with our culture, but it’s long been replaced with media.

>>24500682
Depends on what your goal is in life. To reach some goals reading benefits a lot.

>>24500682
people that read books control the people that watch tv or play vidya

Buy more books you want to read until you've spent thousands of dollars on books you still haven't read.

>>24500682
Nothing matches the sheer information density of written text for conveying information, and there's no video that's going to contain enough information for someone to be generally successful in life and be easily available for review as desired.

I firmly believe that if one wants to be more than a peasant, reading a lot, and reading a lot of the right books, is absolutely a requirement.

>>24500755
No, they don’t. This is your fantasy unfortunately.

>>24500759
I agree but the question of what it’s all for remains. Literature is on one hand a cultural product and on the other hand a knowledge transition medium. In regard to the former, this “culture” has long since abandoned it for mediums like digital media more amenable to pop culture rather than high culture, which is in truth basically dead. That’s why you don’t see people writing long poetic narratives anymore. As for the latter, we basically only understand these as transmissions of theories which we find ourselves unable to sincerely believe. We make greater use of them as a a pile of facts about history and the history of ideas than as ideas themselves. What use is that is unclear at best. We’re probably teaching a point where our rationalizing everything is exhausting itself, and so in our lifetime, this civilization is going to increasingly lean on intuition and instinct. We are not going to move away from rationalizing with media to rationalizing with literature. Some might. The civilization broadly won’t. So what use is it? Why should someone have to read? I don’t have any good reason. Probably, it’s just an aristocratic sort of interest and people can and should remain interested in literature as a hobbyist fascination like fine art. But that’s it.

my father has probably over 10 thousands book and nowadays spends his days watching tiktoks and ig reels
me?
I browse the chans and youtube

>>24500182 (OP)
cut social media or vidya or both

>>24501878
I've been kind of surprised how many of the older generations got sniped by tiktok and short form video on phones. Phone games, too. Family members that used to scold me for playing my gameboy at family gatherings or at restaurants are now glued to their phones almost 24/7. Addictive little demon boxes.