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Originally Posted by ApK
I wonder if more people would try reading as a leisure activity if fewer advocates came off as smug and pretentious.
This wasn't directed specifically at you, Avarwen, but you did manage to illustrate, in one concise, quotable package, the way many here insult not just anyone who doesn't read books, but also those who don't read books THEY approve of.
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These are the people who look at you strange if you don't know who Snookie is or don't enjoy or read Twilight. My problem is that these people never bother to read past the popular fluff if they even can be bothered to read. When I was a kid you not only read for enjoyment but to learn. Something I don't see many younger people doing these days and I'm not that old.
If this was just a matter of opinion they you could call me and others sooty but it's a fact. As of now America is going down the shitter when it come to eduction. Now instead of reading and enriching ourselves we gorge ourselves on the latest trash from the tabloids and watch more trash T.V than should be allowed by law. I'm all for having fun reading and watching smut here and there but from what I've seen that's all most people read or watch.
We need to get kids and all people into reading more and reading more advanced books. How can we expect to compete with other first world nations when most people can't read past an 8th grade level? Don't even get me started on science and math. There's a reason we are no longer #1.