Books Are Fuckin’ Gay Bro

Got To You As Fast As It Could, even Max here is off the screen and onto the dead-tree knowledge.

Books are just another way to convey information or entertainment, but they have a long shelf life. (badoom-chish)

But really, that is true. And that’s what makes them so interesting, as well as their affordability. All you need to get the most out of a book is to know how to read. That is a skill that is scaleable with improvement.

From there, you have full access to time and space at your fingertips. That is much like the internet, however unlike the internet, censorship enforcement and curating of the book scene is very poor. If you want to find out more on a topic that’s hard to findout about, try finding a book about it.

If you want to know more about what people thought about something from an earlier time, find a book published from that earlier time.

If you want to look smart in public, read a book.

If you want to look stupid in public, look at your smarthphone.

If you want to pass the time without hurting your eyes, books are alot easier than screens.

If you want uncensored entertainment, or entertainment censored differently, look for old books.

All this can apply to fiction, non-fiction and in-between.

If you like cigarette ads with your entertainment, short novels published in the mid-20th century are a great way to find them.

If you want a form of distraction that is in no danger of ever being stolen, try books. Infact if you lose it on the train I reckon there’s a fairly reasonable chance it will end up in lost-and-found. Because no one wants to steal a book. Unless it’s Mein Kampf or something. Or one of the other naughty forbidden books that have a stigma around them.

Most people aren’t interesting or imaginative enough to really understand the appeal of what you are reading though, so that’s unlikely to happen.

Most people can’t read anyway.

Speaking of imagination, if you want to expand your imagination, or understanding of the world, books are a great way.

Gymfluencers Andrew Tate and Blair Cottrell are having an online tit-for-tat over the merit of books. Tate hates all of them, Cottrell advocated for Mein Kampf. Sadly neither of them mentioned a book that I have to credit with me being a halfway-fit person rather than a completely physically-inept nerd, which is Arnold Schwarzennegers Bodybuilding Bible. I had two copies at one point, because my weightlifting/fitness-mad Godfather forgot he had already given me one for an earlier birthday.

But that book was a free entry into a lot of fitness knowledge that I would’ve otherwise had to pay through the nose for to the Gym-Mafias. All my self-defence/martial-arts books are similar.

And once the knowledge is between your ears, its there to stay.

Books, as a silent activity most of the time, are a great way to absorb content without anyone observing how you react to it, leaving you free to form independent opinions. As yet, no one can se exactly what you are reading on the page. No VPN is needed.

Paul Joseph Watson at Modernity.news syndicated an article written by a former history teacher about the book debate, and i think this is where the gymbros probably read initially that they have decided to comment on.

It was a refreshing article actually, because the book-fan who wrote it is not worshipping at the feet of so-called “classics” that struggle to appeal to a wide modern audience, but are held up a sacred-cows (ie: stuff we are told we are supposed to like).

Books are where you can find cool new words to use or idioms and phrases that aren’t used by everyone else, giving you a way to stand out of the pack.

Books are a great way to share an interest with a friend. Lend them a book you read that you liked. We used to do this with other media like cds and videos/dvds but we can’t now because those formats are redundant. You can’t assume anyone has the gear to play it. With books, all you have to assume is that they know how to read.

I’m not gonna define someone’s worth by how much or little they’ve read, nor what they’ve read or not read. And yes you can read too much. But I’m down with books, and I will continue to support books. Give it a try zoomer, you know not what you are missing.

BTW, Andrew Tate is still reading anyway, except on an OLED screen which is turning his mind into a schizo pingpong ball rather than in a chilled and mellow ponderer. Plus he needs reception, a charged battery and a lot of other superfluous garbage.