Can one truly justify reading as a main hobby in rapidly moving 21th century where life has so much more to offer than...

Can one truly justify reading as a main hobby in rapidly moving 21th century where life has so much more to offer than strips of paper with words that were written by rich white men hundreds of years ago? Are 'readers' living in the past?

tell me what "life has to offer"

When I was a kid, shitposting meant something

Why is the present/future a better place to live than the past?

how else do you propose we spend our time?

I agree, past was totally a better place to live
*dies from disease at 30*
*dies from hunger*
*dies from being enslaved*
*dies from barbarian invasion*
*dies from plague*
*dies from church inquisition*
*dies from nazis*

Try doing something in real life. It's much more fulfilling.

>*dies from being enslaved*
>*dies from nazis*
>*dies from church inquisition*
Sounds like a personal problem. Try being white next time.

>white people weren't killed by nazis, enslaved, or prosecuted by the Church

>Try doing something in real life. It's much more fulfilling.
such as?

Name 5 white people who were.

>rich
not always

>white
not always

>men
not always

>hundreds of years ago
usually not

Certain truths about the human condition are as relevant today as they were hundreds of years ago, and they'll continue to be relevant.

Also, reading books as just a form of socio-political commentary is ridiculously shallow, we have journalism and opinion pieces for exactly that. If a book has survived this long, you can bet it has aesthetic merit, and that has nothing to do with the passage of time

Get married and have kids or something

video-game yourself out of reality
or watch mediocre shallow movies
don't forget to watch TV and eat fast food
look at your tiny cellphone screen the whole day trying to connect with people

>having a hobby means you can't get married or have children

if your hobby is fapping to imaginary ponies...

>rich
you really think most of these authors were remotely rich? many died in abject poverty. you with victim complexes can never escape your disgusting solipsism. not one group will crush underfoot another, but all men will crush one another. there is no racial discernment in cruelty. you who will never consider the mind of your fellow man, you will find suffering only in yourself, and so, you will be capable of infinite tyranny when your boot is raised above the heads of the weak.

>where life has so much more to offer than strips of paper with words that were written by rich white men hundreds of years ago?

Like what? Video Games?
The world has less to offer outside books now more than ever

rich white men make the video-games he play and tv series he watch so he thought it was the same with literature

All those sound better than dying without a purpose. In today's overcrowded world, most lives are simply seeking to embody some fabled legend about when life wasn't on the fringe of being over-lived. When the reality inside one's mind was the only one, and existence wasn't perpetually shared at every crossroads. When you didn't have to find someone else who's experienced what you just have to access their justification because yours is substandard to theirs. Conformity isn't a bad thing, but sustenance for it's own sake, purely because letting go isn't an option, seems more insane than believing that cellular life can exceed some sort of existential zenith and carry on forever into the infinite as a human body or mind.

Most things the world has to offer now are incredibly shallow and unfulfilling.

Beautiful image.
Makes me wonder how I know to appreciate beauty; oh that's right, I have a working definition of the word because of my experience with literature.


Life isn't segmented. It is all one big, beautiful, oblivious mass/mess...

WORST.ADVICE.EVER

>beautiful
Do you think it's beautiful because of the aesthetics or because of what it portrays? I can agree with the latter, not so much the former. Admit it, that picture is basically weed smoke in technicolor, but because it has such an air of mystery and wonder you feel inclined to call it "beautiful".

>DUDE SHEEPLE
>not like me, woke intellectual

>Can one truly justify reading as a main hobby
yes.
i like it.

It's beautiful because humankind made a telescope, and launched it into space, and took an image of the very stuff we are made of.

It's beautiful because of its massiveness. Maybe awesome is a more appropriate word; but being overwhelmed, being moved - that is my aesthetic.

Since people have stopped reading they better get ready to live in the past; half the dumb shit we get ourselves into has already been covered at length by old writers.

Awesome is unironically the best word to use

I don't have to justify anything, especially to you

If everyone on this planet stopped writing books, it would still be worthwhile to read books that have already been written (and *gasp* that includes works written by white males, women, people of African descent, and many other backgrounds)

The same can be said of film.

this is an anti-natalist board, shitbag

Jetskis, casinos, zip lining, hang gliding, traveling the worlds many tourist destination, a cruise, vidya gaymes, fishing, mountaineering, sailing, surfing, clubbing, poker, strip poker, horseback riding, horseshoes, investing, knitting, canning, baking, fashion, pen-paling, model planes trains and automobiles, tv, movies, the female sex, gardening/botany, craft brew, alchemy, photography, volunteering, donating blood, donating sperm, cooking, car enthusiasm, gun enthusiasm, sport enthusiasm, collectables enthusiasm, fraternities, pranks/social experiments, bbq, ham radio, web cam modeling, droning, drawing, cycling, pets, activism, item collection, religion/cult, whittling, land surveying, amateur geology, yoga, exercise, nutrition

>Try doing something in real life. It's much more fulfilling.
Incorrect, sorry. Unless you choose ti live your life in sweet ignorant bliss, you'll realize that the effort needed to put into life offers far less in compensation. Diminishing returns guarantee all but the luckiest or sadistic end up regretting their life decisions, thinking: "is that it?" and "all that for nothing" essentially. Your parents dreams didn't come true and neither will yours.

>the female sex
>alchemy
>whittling
Great list.

And for what? Waste time until you die? The more time you spend on these things, the less time you have to be able to make money paying for them, the more you feel sory for yourself that you cant affored them.
And once you have enough money to be able to confortably pay for them, they loose their value, and are no longer things to be sought after. Please prove me wrong ;--;

> More worthwhile things
Such as what? Many hobbies engaged in today are as old or older than reading. Are you referring to electronic entertainment? Video games are not more worthwhile. They are only fulfilling while you play, and leave you with nothing deep-rooted. What's more, the skills you develop in the game are only transferable to other games of the same genre - and many require no skill at all.