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Dad: "I don't want to be in a club that would have me as its member", Karl Marx said that

My family had a full encyclopedia that they bought one book at a time right around when I was born in the 80s. By the time I was 10 it moved into my bedroom and I'd often stay up too late reading random things.

Downside was that it was already out of date geopolitically by the time I started thinking about politics.

Lol no that's not true! If you did that, the teacher or the school nerd about this subject would challenge you. He will come to your house, ring your doorbell, and you'll go together to your city library. Unlike the internet, you could not just source some shit some-nobody made up and spread online. You had to prove it with hard-text published sourced papers.

We used to pay higher cost in money, time and effort in order to learn any topic. As a result, once you learn it, you hold it for life, and spread it and proudly challenge others about its truth everywhere you go, which pushes you to seek further.

Each room of our house still has a large bookshelf library. I never left any of the books which I personally bought untouched including those large expensive hard-cover multi-series encylopedias about physics, chemistry, mathetics, history, philosophy, language, geology, politics and everything. I had to read them at least once to learn their topics otherwise I would've lost that money.

Btw I'm not talking about school textbooks; no those we used to burn in celebration at the end of each year's graudation outside the parking lots!
Lol we really grew up in different times

There was also that one guy who was 3 years older than you but hanged out with your friend group on occasion and told you things like where kids come from.

Aunt Marge now lives in the Whatsapp family chat.