Ninja_Pollito

Ninja_Pollito OP t1_itrcu00 wrote

Everything you said here resonates. I am so bored with elitism, classism, and just the general, "I do this thing and it makes me better and more important than you." I guess I am also so weary of the whole productivity mindset. Even with my spare time, reading books, I have to be in that mindset or I am doing it all wrong. Sigh.

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Ninja_Pollito OP t1_iton1ee wrote

I have read many classics, for sure. And certainly not all reading is equal. Most of us are likely to agree on that. But what matters to us as individuals and where we find meaning can be a very subjective thing. He seemed to find meaning and value in the classics of the Western canon, which is great. But there are a lot of interesting works outside of this, as well. And if reading what some might consider trash novels gets someone through the day, who am I to judge?

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