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billionaires won't tell me all how to make money, ergo, books are useless. i'm a strategist btw.
"After college you shouldn't read a book, you should try to gain power"
An absolutely normal thing to think in twenty twenty-five.
It's kinda unfortunate that it's not wrong. Knowledge is not power on an individual level, power is. You don't have to be smart if you can pay other people to be smart for you. So from a purely selfish economic perspective, he's sorta right. If the only thing you care about is making the most money at the cost of everything and everyone else then your main focus should be power
OK, but "you should try to gain power" is analysis on the level of "don't siege Leningrad, take it immediately" (from that guy on Twitter saying how he would have won as Hitler - what a normal website).
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Forever I am happy to have gone into the sciences where knowledge is an incredible burden; even if you spend every waking moment trying to give away what you have found, you are fated to die alone atop your hoard. The truly incredible sights might meet others' eyes someday, if they are troubled to get there themselves. All the wondrous details belong only to you and will be lost forever.
To more directly respond to McElwee here, I am always amazed what people write down in books. The great secrets persist only because nobody takes the time to read them. To dismay, purchasing the book is not enough. It demands your time. And people in these circles are very good at filling their time with everything else.
If you think that the take “books are stupid” could add a single atom of intellectual weight to whatever you say next you are being a carnival barker and should deeply evaluate your commitment to what you are saying.
And I say this as a person who is unserious on the internet as a coping mechanism. I understand hyperbole.
But seriously, fuck this McElwee fart sniffer.
we can keep secrets from this guy just by putting them into books.
and elites can keep secrets from everyone by monkey wrenching public literacy programs.
I bet this guy makes some killer PowerPoint slideshows
Oh hey, those cops who complain that they can't do the reading needed to infultrate leftist circles just made their own splinter group without the need for any reading! 
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Low key agree American leftists should probably be more focused on praxis and getting power (not merely getting elected within the bourgeois electoral system) but you still need theory and I suppose McElwee is what happens when your praxis is non threatening and you just dont read theory.
i also agree, but i find it hilarious at how he arrives at that (and that book is about how to become a billionaire is low-key future predictor of fraudster bankman friedman dealings)
Its the type of books that are important.
The Yankee brainpan is incapable of imagining a non-fiction book that is not sold in an airport.
Infantile.
First you write the books
Then you get the power
Then you get the sexy people
I joke a lot about how i'm never gonna read again but i'm smarter than this guy
Due to a brain injury I can not read condensed books. So I rely on comrades who are willing to educate me through conversation about theory they’ve read. For me this works and I know and understand enough leftist theory to be able to apply it in real life organizing. Obviously my situation is not comparable to this person who is wilfully staying ignorant. But I do feel called out whenever people talk about how reading theory is a necessity for being a leftist.
i'm more amazed at this instinctual understanding of being swindled by a book of "things harvard don't teach you to get a billion" (they won't sell it if it were real, semi-obviously) being expanded upon all the books, everywhere, in all history. like how do you come with this shit? ooh sorry, dan brown novel was so poorly written, i won't read hemingway (???)
