@sickburnbro On the one hand we will never be able to retire, but on the other hand if the gen alphas are functionally retarded we'll always have work?
@skylar@sickburnbro I was gonna say: devils advocate->If a book has a hook I can get into I will skip sleep to read it; however *no* book assigned in school meets that criteria. I struggled to get through single chapters of dreck from the likes of John Steinbeck and as a guy I knew I wasn't alone in my suffering. Many a "book report" was just a rephrased hash of the summary on the back of the book jacket. Everything would be spelled and phrased correctly though so it was an easy 'C'.
@EvilSandmich@skylar Well, that's what happens when you have wine aunts teaching your literature classes. I got to read the Illiad in HS, and guess what it was fucking sweet.
@sickburnbro is it is it really the wordcel nonsense has gotten so far out of hand that a solid 90% of text is completely worthless and has no reason to exist. decades of wordcels have convinced other wordcels that more text == better writing, pajeet SEO spam sites have contributed countless tomes of worthless text, and now AI is working hard at surpassing their numbers.
what is there to even read? some kike journalist making up lies to smear white people? jew lawyer shit mean to WELL AKSHUALLY other jew lawyers? a 50 page user manual on a toaster oven in 43 brown people languages warning folks not to put their dick in it?
@EvilSandmich@skylar@sickburnbro I skipped reading a book and bullshitted the discussion in class. Ended up I was completely, 100% incorrect in my comments (can't remember the details, but it was as incorrect as claiming it took place in a tropical jungle when it actually took place in the Sahara desert) but strangely the teacher and class didn't notice and went along with it.
It was odd but if you make statements confidently and passionately most people won't notice or care nothing you are saying is correct or even remotely makes sense.
@sickburnbro I don't even think this is some grand "dumbing down" of the next generation either, I think it's just the natural consequence of the whole "no child left behind" bullshit. These kids aren't stupid intrinsically, they're just conditioned to do the bare minimum (or less) because they've never encountered consequences of any kind for doing so. 🤷
@EvilSandmich@sickburnbro yeah schools are probably the last place you'd find an interesting book. but it's not like this is a new thing. books were just as fucking boring when i was a kid. hell, the TV and video games were boring too and only useful as something to do when the weather was terrible.
@samjayganges@skylar@sickburnbro Book had stronk wahmen and magic negro though 🙄 It is an easy, entertaining read though. To your point one of the happier days of my life was in 7th grade when I realized I could read well enough to plow through Arthur C Clark books and was no longer penned-in to what the girls in the class wanted to read.
@skylar for sure, I'm not concerned about the "likes to read for pleasure", but what I am concerned about is the amount of time people spend glued to screens, passive consumers.
@sickburnbro i honestly doubt that many people liked reading for pleasure even back when literature was supposedly good maybe there was a brief period in like the late 20th century but that's about it before then, there were so many other things folks could do for entertainment that weren't paywalled beyond what average people could afford or cockblocked by bureaucratic red tape. would you rather sit around reading some wordcel shit or pay a nickel to go bowling with your friends at the bowling alley that didn't allow coloreds? or go fishing in the creek without paying some government faggot for a fishing loicense? i'm betting it was mostly a thing for snooty upper class people
just go on goodreads and look for a topic you're interested in. what is it with people complaining about all media nigga you're supposed to find what you're interested in!