#i could make some drole comment about The Book (deleuzoguattarian) that would be catnip to a certain type of tumlr user and gain their
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Its very funny when telling people i haven’t read much of anything in over a year and dont feel the need to change this until i get a reading vibe again like i feel no sturm und drang about it etc makes people assume im like. anti intellectual. when im exactly the type of person who reads a fuckton of theory and extremely complex high intensity novels and can talk about them by making connections etc that a certain type of internet user views as the pinnacle of intelligence & thus authority. Except after spending like 3 years in a constant state of low grade psychosis bc my brain was being stimulated with very abstract concepts and kept building higher and higher castles into the ether by connecting concepts etc bc thats exactly the type of thing its good at doing and will do ad infinitum. i had to simply put the shit down if i wanted to not be miserable and both over- and under-stimulated at all times and also incapable of yk. holding down a job and relationships to human people around me. whatever
#the automatic assumption that Reading Is Good For You Always; More Reading More Good; If Youre Not Reading Thats Bad And You Should Feel#Increasingly Guilty And Panicked Until You Can Again; etc; is such an example of how certain narrations about Culture & The Intellectual#around since positivism have gotten baked into everything to the point a supposed ‘progressive’ (etc) can just. Reframe them without#questioning them#i could make some drole comment about The Book (deleuzoguattarian) that would be catnip to a certain type of tumlr user and gain their#grudging approval by flashing some type of ingroup symbol but im fundamentally not an engagement or clout based blogger (or existence)#at any level; even the micro level#anyway. i dont even disagree very generally that reading in a human life is better than nkt reading#(exposes u to different ideas and knowledge of other times/places etcetc yk the line)#but like. lets maybe question this at a even slightly more granular level#ive already read more books on any given year btw 2012 and 2023 than the average person will read in a lifetime#i can be like those snakes that eat a bunch and then chill to digest for a long time.
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