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I'm noticing a lot of people taking "you should read more about this, here are some book recommendations" as insulting their intelligence.

This is relevant because most USians lack a political education.

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Americans are violently opposed to the practice of reading

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've talked to so many people who proud themselves on not having read a book since leaving school.

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

School does a good job of teaching people to hate reading.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

one of the ways i got motivated into reading as a little kid is one of my teachers would hand out candy whenever i finished reading a book and took a short quiz on it. very effective! my grandma would also do story time over the phone and stuff

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We had a program at our school that would give you a coupon for a free pizza every 10 or so books that you read (this was grade school so they weren't really too long, think beginners level chapter books), which worked pretty well for me. Now as a grown adult, I wish I still had a way to get free pizza.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently Pizza Hut gorby-sad still has the Book It! program lol

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Yep, that is it! Completely forgot the name, but I do remember that it was Pizza Hut. I'm more surprised that they're still doing it, I figured they would have killed that off by now. I want pizza now.

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

What the heck! I wanted candy when I was younger too, it would have been nice to have your teacher.

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I agree. I only got by when I read books for my own enjoyment. Really made me appreciate Shakespeare for example, particularly Hamlet and King Lear.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

the most incurious people on the planet, even worse than the br*ts

[–] raven@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then let them ~~eat cake~~ listen to audiobooks

Commuting almost an hour one way means almost 2 hours "reading" a day, so long as you're wired for it. I understand some aren't able to digest books in that form.

[–] Helmic@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is also why like most people came here to begin with, they listened to a podcast. Really wish literal printed words weren't privileged so much, you can get through a shitload of books as audiobooks since you do not have to avoid doing anything else. Chores, your job, cooking, playing a relaxing game, you can basically just breathe books without your life being put on hold.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Absolutely, breathing books is a great way to put it.

It isn't the same as reading a book, and you have to be ready to pause frequently, but way better than nothing. Sometimes I even put music and an audiobook on at once meow-knit

Nothing that requires full attention of course. Like pop-leftist books such as bullshit jobs there's a lot of what is to me fluff.