I know it’s 2026. Tiktok and Instagram dominate minds. So do video games.
I know that millions of men have become part of the Idiocracy. Why put forth effort to improve your mind by learning? School sucked. Reading is for fags. Books are for fags. You know all you need to know anyways.
Bullcrap.
Whereas I do have sympathy for those who learned to hate learning in GOVERNMENT schools, the fact is that you probably don’t know all you need to know. (Does anyone really?)
If you’ve not read a book in years, you probably don’t. If you learn about the world mostly by watching videos, you probably don’t.
Look, I don’t know what you what you should or shouldn’t know. That’s your prerogative.
However, I do know visual media tends to make you stupider. It is impotent at best or brainwashing at worst. It’s all based more on emotion that reason.
The images of visual media burn into your imagination, and replace those images your own imagination would create by reading words.
You put forth no effort while sitting on your ass watching media. You expended not an ounce of brainpower to learn what the screen was telling you, which is very different than reading. Yet, you’re filled with words afterwards.
Indeed, sitting on your ass is a powerful experience. Those images burned into your imagination by flickering screens conjure emotions that pulse into thoughts and then into lame, boring words.
Emotion is more dictating your thinking than reason. You sound like valley girls, men. So, who’s the fag really?
Seriously, you know how many times I’ve had to listen to people try to tell me what they’ve “learned” after watching a video? A documentary? It’s “irritating.”
They can’t answer the simplest questions. They know nothing deeper than the images. It’s as if they watched nothing in the first place!
“You should watch it yourself; I’m just not explaining it well enough. I…”
No I shouldn’t, Mr. Potatohead! You’re doing a piss-poor job selling the notion that whatever documentary video you just watched is stimulating or edifying if you can’t tell me a bloody thing about it!
HOWEVER, READING IS DIFFERENT!
When you read, you’re thinking. You’re focusing. You’re crafting images of understanding based on your own reasoning powers.
You can zoom in on those images far better than if they were given to you by television. You can answer questions. You can extrapolate better opinions. Your words are more interesting.
Look, I’m not trying to be a jerk, but good gosh. So many men have become such boring creatures because their understanding of subjects I enjoy is as shallow as toilet water. I’m not saying this to project myself as some intellectual titan. I couldn’t do that if I tried.
But it’s bloody true that most men are dreadfully boring to talk to, and that’s because they’re not interested int things that are interesting, and even if they are, they don’t know much about the topic anyways.
Indeed, as the illustrious President Not Sure said,
There was a time when reading wasn’t just for fags. And neither was writing. People wrote books…
So, who’s really the fag for knowing nothing???
Fag your face!
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