Alexis Turner

Read More....and then Shut the Fuck Up

(academia, books, culture wars, history, whiny illiterate derivative unimaginative fuckers — )

21 Jan. 2008

You know, if I have to read one more single fucking article or hear one more whiny lament about how reading is dying, I am just going to pull out some batshit crazy whupass on the mother fucker that dared to snivel out that ridiculous platitude yet again.

1. Books are not the only form of reading, you fucking dipshits.
2. Not everyone in the world has the leisure time to sit around reading all day. Some people have to actually work for a living doing all the things you rely on having done but are not able or willing to do yourself. When you learn and actually begin to do every single one of those things, come back to me and we'll rediscuss why reading is more important than all of those other things.
3. Please note that historically, reading by the dirty unwashed masses was done as a means of personal and economic betterment. In other words, necessity and personal gain. Reading by the rarefied few was done for fun. The same is still true.
4. Please note that both types of reading in point three are just that - reading.
5. Stop only counting "acceptable" forms of reading in your bogus studies. It makes them painfully meaningless.
6. Stop conflating change in reading habits with decline in reading habits.
7. Pick a line in the sand and stick with it. Twats like you were decrying the death of reading over a hundred years ago. Then they were doing it 80 years ago. Then 60. If you are all to be believed, no one left in the world even understands the concept of a letter, much less has the ability to actually read it. Pick a definition of "death" that you can actually quantify and prove to me - one that doesn't involve comparison of others' reading to your own.
8. Read a book on the history of reading, for the love of god.