I'm serious here.

I have this idea that people seem to read literature to "improve" themselves as persons. Yet when I meet someone who is well read and cultured, I can't help but feel that they are deeply normalfags, as in, fucking stupid and useless. Some of these people are really pretentious as well.

Blogging time: I had a gf who had been a teacher and had to read a lot for work, all kinds of stuff. She didn't seem to want to hear anything about my habits, about why I did or did not do something, about the technical stuff I do as a hobby and as part of my job, which has made me improve my standards of life far more than I had ever dreamed. We almost never talked anything even mildly "intellectual" as well. I tried motivating her to learn some of the stuff I did, and even basic math to make her understand some of my spending habits, but she was completely uninterested in anything other than my "emotional" and "loving" side. I found this really sad. I felt alone. It made me think she didn't really want to improve her life. She cried about the difference in our salaries and how I was stingy (I was born in a poor family and had worked some summers since I was 6...). She opposed most of my suggestions on how to spend our money and wanted me to spend money on useless shit. Meanwhile, I was trying to find a good place to buy with my (little) savings. In the end, I thought we were not compatible and left her. I thought none of the books and stuff she read gave her some common sense to understand why a guy who was born poor was trying to take advantage of his temporarily privileged position ASAP...

This experience left me even more confident in my thought that most literature is just entertainment, and mostly a waste of time. I'd rather read technical stuff and science and technology news...

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