Why aren't millennials interested in literature?

Why aren't millennials interested in literature?

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Anyone who unironically uses the phrase "millennial" is a retard.

they are

Why? It's the most commonly used term for referring the generation.

>tattoos
dropped

being a millennia that enjoys literature and reading this.

Because it's a massive buzzword and it's only so popular because it's a buzzard.

>implying buzzfeed and vox isn't literature
ptfwwweee

Because of the ways in which the internet affects of our brains, it's becoming increasingly difficult to buckle down and read. There are plenty of millenials who are interested in readings, but relativist views have skewered any standards of quality, which in turn results in lack of taste.

The majority of this board's population is very likely "millennials"--those born between 1982 and 1998, give or take a few years each way.

Tfw born in 1958.

Guess I'm too old for this here board and website.

That face and smile deserve a slap, just for existing.

Are you fucking serious

I enjoy literature
I'd say the previous generation has less chance or desire

I hope you've seen every shitpost I've ever made

Is it not weird being decades older than this site's main demographic?

Youngfags out

we read more books than all other cohorts

Are there any conclusive studies that would point truth towards your statement, OP? If so, I would be interested to read more about this topic.

From an subjective point of view, I would much rather be inclined to claim that every generation has its own congeries of individuals with various habits and interests, for some those interests and hobnies could be it reading. I wouldn't put myself out there and claim that 'millenials' would be any different from the ones who came before them or to the one who shall come after. People of this generation are into literature as much as their parents and their grandparents before them.

Ah, excuse my orthography... Damn you mobile keypad, with your small letters, damn you go eternal slumber...

self-entitled, impatient and lazy

they read plenty of YA/genre fiction shit. Apparently you should be impressed when they stop checking their phones long enough to read through the ASOIAF books.

and then of course watching Netflix original box set shows is apparently something admirable.

>why aren't lay-people interested in literature?

Philosophy and classical literature has been a niche interest for a long time now. It's not like the current crop of college students are the first to exhibit this trait.

You forgot to mention that reading a book isn't actually reading.

It only counts as reading if you're reading some philosophy book that you can brag about reading on lit.

Fiction doesn't count as reading.

Where? I see none.

Because literature is trash.

Genetics + Aesthetics > Pseudo-Intellectualism

Get a load of this faggot, everyone.

Yeah! FUCK representing meaningful ideas symbolically!

More people read today that ever in entire history.
This idea that the grass was greener in the past is fucking retarded.

yes....but do they read literature

>not literature. its just a book


millenials live within a visual culture based on instant gratification. they prioritise the image over the text (inb4 derrida nonsense). its unreasonable to expect them to be fervent readers

Stop moving the goalposts, faggot. First you complain that people don't read enough (factually false) then you complain that people don't read what you read. Maybe mind your own business and let people enjoy whatever?

>Talking 'bout my generation...

>being this much of a dualist pseud

Single-sense formats are ineffective. This is why anime is actually the best medium, if it weren't so flooded with low-effort garbage.

> People of this generation are into literature as much as their parents and their grandparents before them.
How come every obnoxious pseud is a relativist? kys

what the fuck.
I'm not the op.
I haven't even read any other posts ITT.

get off my dick

Well they are interested in literature, it's just that it most likely isn't literature that Veeky Forums considers literature.

You know, like Harry Potter and A Song of Ice and Fire.

/thread

I prefer "the internet generation"
A generation who essentially grew up on the internet and, thus, prioritise the image over the text and have no attention span

>millenials live within a visual culture based on instant gratification.
I remember being 15 too.
Upvote if you're the 90s kid

>Philosophy and classical literature has been a niche interest for a long time now

Yeah, forever. For most of human history literature was a pastime for the rich. The masses couldn't even read or write, nevermind questions of taste.

too offensive

>tfw when peepaw uses tfw

because they're fucking cancer


I was born in 1978 btw.

you "people" disgust me

my bingo group says otherwise

>implying plebs liked literature before millenials

Show us your research.

???
Did you mean nose piercing?

We volunteer more, we donate more, we bully less, we're better than you shiftless gen x'ers in every way. The things you hate are things all young people do.

Millennials stop at 1995, not 1998. That's gen Z.

It's Robert Pirsig

Amen.

Not much reason to read when you can get all the information from books in more convenient and succinct sources.

This thread reads like old people angry at cloud: the post

>it's another millennial doesn't know he's a millennial episode

Because video games are much better lol

because there's more emphasis on attaining technocratic careers and degrees, millennials still read but in much smaller amounts than the previous generations.

89 here can I be genY then please?

Oh shit that's a synonym for millenial nvm amigo.

Is this bait?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

Or do you prefer "Generation Y"?

They're both universally accepted terms which define the time period. Nothing inherently wrong with the term either, considering the generation it describes mostly consists people growing up at the turn of the new millennium.

millenials are probably the first generation to be fully computer literate which is something. my dad didn't get a pc in to his adult hood and struggled learning how. probably very few of our grandparents can use a mouse and keyboard to any great effect.

My guess? They are all hyper-pretentious assholes who have the only valuable opinion and are more interested in telling everyone how enlightened they are compared to people who lived in an entirely different time who's life's context is swept under the rug.

as another olderfag (a little younger, from the '60's) I have to say that what IS weird is that the youngfags think it is weird that olderfags are on the boards.
YOU are young, you are supposed to be out there sowing your seeds, doing all the shit that olderfags have already done.
but you're not.
you're pecking at a laptop while hiding behind 7 proxies, you've got an email tab open, nine windows of porn, Facebook, Instasnap, you're waiting for a text from someone, anyone, and some 'likes' to affirm your positive sense of self.
Or you reject all that, except the porn, and think that makes you superior.

Fact is, olderfags saw the best bands, knew the greatest decade (seventies), met the best authors, got teargassed in all the best places, hung out at the bars and hotels you call legendary today, knew the museums and galleries without the crowds, travelled the world long before discount airlines ruined the experience, were at universities before they became a PC shitshow, fucked before AIDS, and knew what true non-digital-age freedom was all about.

But you go ahead with your "you're old" schtick.
What you don't understand is that stuff doesn't bother anyone who's old.
Because we know - KNOW - really know, that you'll be old.
Much sooner than you think.
Or you'll be dead.
And forgotten.
But probably just old.
And forgotten.
Just like us.
lol
At least we knew lived an organic and individual human life, and not a simulacrum.

lol
that's just ridiculous
people had Macs in university dorms in 1985

Yeah, you're about 40 years too old to be here.

Everything he said is true.

>Is this bait?
No, it literally is a buzzword and OP's post is a fine example of this.

>Why do millennials do X
>Why don't millennials do Y
>How come millennials are so Z

Shitty newspapers and clickbaity websites are full of headlines to that effect and it's thanks to those that it exploded in popularity. For all its legitimate uses those are dwarfed by its meme-status among lazy journalists.

>getting a fucking five star meal at an airline

>Fact is, olderfags saw the best bands, knew the greatest decade (seventies), met the best authors, got teargassed in all the best places, hung out at the bars and hotels you call legendary today, knew the museums and galleries without the crowds, travelled the world long before discount airlines ruined the experience, were at universities before they became a PC shitshow, fucked before AIDS, and knew what true non-digital-age freedom was all about.
If I had to hazard a guess I'd say you did very little if any of that. Given that you're on Veeky Forums hanging out with people young enough to be your kids I'd wager that you were a lot like us when you were young.

Maybe didn't go out much, maybe girls didn't like you, maybe all your peers thought you were weird (and if you're here, probably still do), maybe you sank too embarrassing amounts of time into shit like Star Trek and DnD, you might even have been one of the first weeaboos, maybe you didn't even like your peers. Maybe you were an edgy contrarian rebel that had to prove he was better than the normies in some way without ever engaging with them. You probably didn't see great bands, you probably didn't teargassed, you probably didn't go to any famous bars, you probably didn't travel the world, you probably didn't meet any great authors. What you probably did was sit at home doing something trivial while all you knew surpassed you in every way.

Friendly reminder for the newfriends who came here in the last 2 years.

They do. You just never see it for the same reason you wouldn't have seen it in any other decade. Plebs don't need, they never read, and they never will.
Stop forcing this "this generation sucks :(" meme, it's always been shit too

A reasonable stance to take, my good user.

yeah, in the western world, personal computers with internet connection were RARE to have even in the western world until the 90s I'd say.

Weren't you at /g/ hoeing this line?

Netflix

Because contemporary literature is shit.

she looks dumb but if she were sitting next to me in class i would fall in love with her

being a millennial is a choice

and if its not then people have to stop using the word the way that they do

why do you believe they're not?

I'm 30 years old and my dad was born the same year as you.

>Why aren't millennials interested in literature?

Substantiate your claim and give reasons why "millenials" are less interested in literature than any other group.

They read once for English class and didn't enjoy how the teacher taught them everything about the author's intention, subtext and context of the book rather than actually teaching the story.

It left a bad taste in their mouth and most millennials have a short attention span, too short to give something another chance later down the line, therefore most of them don't read outside of their facebook and twitter feeds.

you're on Veeky Forums.
this isn't some kind of peer reviewed publication.

"digital natives" are retarded and don't have the attention span for serious literature. Everybody knows this.

Hi Dad

>you're on Veeky Forums.

This really shouldn't be reason enough to blindly believe unsubstantiated claims just because
>everyone knows this,
especially not in a place that is as ideological as Veeky Forums.

Cool sweeping generalisations you got, faggot.

>Back in my day!!!

WHY THE FUCK DO YOU KEEP POSTING THESE THREADS ON EVERY BOARD WITH HER?

gb2reddit

fagget

Really sounds like you just don't want to have your ideology questioned, desu

fuck off slavoj

It's technically possible. I mean my dad's not much younger but he got into the internet when it was just becoming a thing, so he knows a lot about it. He'd never use a site like this, but I'm sure some people like him would.
I'm 18 years old and my dad is 6 years younger than yours.

The fuck kinda working-class fucknugget are you

this

>If I had to hazard a guess I'd say you did very little if any of that. Given that you're on Veeky Forums hanging out with people young enough to be your kids I'd wager that you were a lot like us when you were young.
true

>Maybe didn't go out much
correct

>maybe girls didn't like you
apparently some did, I found out later, but I wasn't aware then.

>maybe all your peers thought you were weird (and if you're here, probably still do)
yup

>maybe you sank too embarrassing amounts of time into shit like Star Trek and DnD...
And that's where you went wrong.

you see, we didn't have 500 channels where I lived and D'n'D and such were unknown to me, so what I did was I got the fuck out of my town and travelled the world.
Places like NYC, London, and Paris might as well have only existed in my dreams, so those were some of the first places I went.
I didn't get a rail pass and zip through these places, I lived in these places (except NYC).
Because I left as soon as was possible, I literally had almost no money.
So I worked as best I could wherever I was - painting libraries, teaching english, translating documents, working at restaurants, etc.
In London a certain portion of my food came from free samples at various supermarkets.
I didn't give a fuck, I was in London (and Paris and Venice and Rome and later Tokyo and Hong Kong and LA, and so on).

I had figured, correctly, that outside my town no one knew me so no one had preconceptions of who I was.
So I could remake myself. And I did, and it was more successful than I could ever have imagined. I won't bother with the details because I'm certain you won't believe me (I wouldn't).

I went from barely having kissed a girl to having beautiful girlfriends, from no real social life to parties with all sorts of interesting, smart people (and plenty of pricks, too) from all sorts of countries and incredibly varied backgrounds.
I mentioned the bands and teargas and famous bars and hotels and meeting great authors (and musicians and a famous playwright and a couple of actresses) because all those things happened, and looking back I can see it seems pretty fucking great. And it was. At the time, it was just life, or rather it had become "just" my life, but I'm still glad it all happened that way.
I ended up, after a decade or so, with less money than most of my peers, but great experiences.
And thanks to those experiences I was able to get on with the rest of my life in a completely different way than I would have if all I had done
>was sit at home doing something trivial while all you knew surpassed you in every way.

Maybe if I had had the internet and unlimited porn and forums as substitutes for human contact I would have done none of that. Very possible. But I was born earlier than you were, so I was deprived of the option to waste my best years on a Gambian peanut harvesting board.

Well I was at a Canadian university in 1985 and they were novel, even rare then, but two years later there were a lot more.
The notion that millenials have any sort of advantage re: the digital age is pure fantasy.

I'd love to hear how that could be.

I remember my father getting hot tea in his lap when a porcelain tea cup hit another and broke. That tea cup would be considered a weapon now, no doubt.

cool undergrad terminology you've got, Ethan.

lol
I know, right.
But you'll be saying it sooner than you think.
Maybe right here.

>Oh shit I can finally go out and see the world!
>Better visit NYC, Paris, and fucking London.
My dad travelled around Turkey and Israel. I mean I haven't done shit but my dad is better than your dad (I mean you) so I win

>you're pecking at a laptop while hiding behind 7 proxies, you've got an email tab open, nine windows of porn, Facebook, Instasnap, you're waiting for a text from someone, anyone, and some 'likes' to affirm your positive sense of self.

Fuckin savage m8

Because they have screens.

I didn't go on the internet till 2002. I was 23 years old.

I preferred life before it desu

So basically you're saying the secret to going from NEET to ELITE is to go somewhere where no one knows who you are?

Interesting.