What if our obsession with books is less about intellect and more about racist Eurocentric conditioning?

>>24526054 (OP)
>more about racist Eurocentric conditioning?
wtf i love books even more now

>>24526054 (OP)
What if YOUR obsession with
>Eurocentric conditioning
is a not so clever corporate ruse, acceptable to YOU because it sanctions laziness and whining?

>>24526054 (OP)
But I love female asian american bookslop

a docile population of retards

>>24526054 (OP)
>Kanye West says Hes Never read a Book.
what a shock!!!

>>24526054 (OP)
vegetables are good for your health

>nigger says he never reads
wow, what a surprise, I thought they're all intellectual

>>24526086
Why would he? Books aren't a big part of Black history and culture anyways since slaves weren't allowed to read

>>24526054 (OP)
Your word is a bit inflammatory but to be charitable, there is an aspect of reading as a hobby which is culturally performative. Reading is commonly used to signify someone is intelligent and it's also seen as 'high culture'. A lot of people feel they need to read more not because they want the knowledge that reading provides (or if they do, then only as a secondary goal) but because they feel a well-rounded and socially valuable person is one who reads. Part of the frustration with people who mostly read fantasy comes from this. From one perspective, it feels like a cheat code where they can acquire all the cultural prestige of reading without reading anything that has historically been given as a justification for that prestige, like prominent works of literature or philosophy.
Is it Eurocentric? Well, kind of? In the sense that if you're reading to acquire cultural capital then you are probably more likely to read classics which do tend to be European -- at least, the classics in Western countries. Is it offensively Eurocentric? I would say no. Unless, for example, you're an Asian person in an Asian country using literature as a way to kind of coopt European culture, which does happen surprisingly often.

>>24526054 (OP)
West is not a dummy and any of that rap shit is an act.
His mother was a professor and his father a journalist, he himself went to art school. Like Dave Chapelle he plays up the inner city black culture factor because that is what sells.
He is however, also quite like Dave, mentally ill.

>>24526096
>Black Culture and History (in the States)
Begins with Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington, organized Black Christianity, as well as more than a handful of incredible singers, musicians, artists, entertainers. Also, an influential patois and cuisine. White Americans are only 'white Americans' thanks to the influence of this fine folk. This richness works both ways, of course, but is completely ignored because of its positivity

love me sone roasted sprouts desu

>>24526122
The COPE

>>24526054 (OP)
Yeah it sure is a shame how no other society ever had writing.

>>24526195
fucking sumerians and their chicken scratch. it's over

>>24526054 (OP)
That"s why he'll never achieve anything further than "I did some rituals with jay Z, made good music, and sold some shoes" while other billionaires like Bill Gates have huge historical impact (a negative impact, in this case)

>>24526178
This, cut em in half, add some Dijon...

>>24526178
if you have to bastardize something to the point you're eating bare carbon is it still a veggie?

at least he read the bible and mien kamf

>>24526054 (OP)
https://files.catbox.moe/1e8kdi.mp4

>>24526110
reading this way only appeals to midwits whose only way of gaining knowledge and perspective is by reading, there's an iq threshold at which reading becomes a bore because the knowledge you encounter has already occurred to you or is too outdated and where you need to be active in other ways like writing or building a company, relationship, creating, etc in order to feel fulfilled, this excessive obsession with reading, 200,300 books a year points to some mental inadequacy not unlike those men obsessed with lifting, the truly smart people read a few esoteric volumes then use that to create something lasting

>>24526316
you'd have to be utterly inept to burn them. might as well kill yourself with a ripe fig

>>24526178
They make me flatulate like no other for days on end, otherwise they're quite good with some gravy.

>>24526191
Kek. The Truth

>>24526355
>200,300 books a year points to some mental inadequacy not unlike those men obsessed with lifting, the truly smart people read a few esoteric volumes then use that to create something lasting
Don't look up how many books were in the libraries of Napoleon, Stalin and Hitler

>>24526178
me? i just blanch em so they have a nice bite to them

>>24526578
inherited or acquired, these men read on demand, they were too busy to read that many books in a year

>>24526777
That doesn't explain the thousands of books with annotations by their hands all throughout

>>24526355
midwit cope
nothing prevents you from keeping on reading while taking action

>>24526054 (OP)
I like a nice big salad with lots of various things in
And don't think one group of people should be allowed to take his kids company and money and deplatform him just for pointing out their pervasive control of society

>>24526054 (OP)
This is a shitpost but there’s plenty of people who argue similar things unironically. That a focus on stats and logic is somehow beyond and unnatural to other people who need their “other ways of knowing” (presumably what, mumbo jumbo and emotion?). It’s literally what colonialists said about inferior cultures, they couldn’t handle civilization, but because it’s dressed up in far left clothing people think it’s a good thing.
Same thing with the segregationist insanity they were trying out a few years ago. Safe space is when all the coloureds get their own break room.

Apparently the solution to the migration issue is just arguing that there can be no better perk of being black or brown than having your own country! In fact they should all get a free ticket to their own country! Wow. No more evil white people to ruin their day and they get to be 100% in charge? Now we’re being progressive. I’ll take my diversity award now.

>>24526790
napoleon was exiled for 7 yrs so its understandable he did nothing but read
>>24526795
i didn't say you couldn't read

>>24526872
>napoleon was exiled for 7 yrs so its understandable he did nothing but read
But that still doesn't explain Hitler and Stalin. Also it's well known that Napoleon was a voracious reader. He even had protable libraries made specifically for him so he could take books on his campaigns

>>24526118
>art school
hmm

>>24526872
>the truly smart people read a few esoteric volumes then use that to create something lasting

>>24526089
No they're bitter and poisonous. Babies instinctually spit it out for a reason. Enjoy your oxalates and lectins

>>24527271
>people are now using schizo lore to justify being picky eaters