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5 Reasons Not to Read
1. Reading by itself is not helpful.
The truth is that a person can live perfectly without books. You can be loved, popular, achieve success and be known as an intelligent person, absolutely without contact with literature. So what? Nothing! This is reason enough to admit that reading is not a necessary attribute of life. Even Facebook can be more useful than books.
There are so many more important areas: work, family, clothing, shopping, friends, food, parties, sex, sports. And each, unlike the books, gives some advantages. Reading is antisocial, thanks to it you will not feel better (rather, exactly the opposite), it is impossible to impress. Why waste time doing something that doesn’t work for us when you can do so many other things that make sense in your life?
2. Reading takes a lot of time.
Movie: an hour and a half. Series: 30-55 minutes. Party/Beer Hall: Six hours plus a possible hangover the next morning. One hour. Music: It can sound background and doesn’t take time at all. And the book? To read a novel, you need to allocate at least a couple of dozen hours! Who in our time will have so much time? This is simply physically impossible: a person sits at work all day, tired as a dog comes home, goes shopping, then you need to cook something else, take care of a partner, children, pets. Closer to midnight, he is almost switched off and at his last breath he only manages to take a bottle of beer out of the refrigerator and jump on TV channels for half an hour, flipping through Facebook with the other hand. If a miracle happened and the children went to their grandmother (how often does it happen – three, four times a month?), he will not sit down for a book, but, of course, go to meet with friends, go to a movie, maybe a match, play a computer game or sit on Facebook. Anything takes less time than reading. The calculation is simple.
3. Reading is tiring
Since elementary school, we know that reading is anguish. Middle and high school only confirm this sad truth, you can breathe calmly only after the final exam. Get rid of lists of books, surveys on the knowledge of characters, essays, compositions with the interpretation of poems and control about literary eras. What normal person would want to go back to this nightmare?
After all, reading is a very tiring activity. Not only is it time-consuming (see paragraph 2), it also requires focusing on one activity, silence, serenity, solitude, and abandoning all distractions like the Internet and mobile phone. There's so much to do!
Therefore, the Internet wins: catchy statuses, articles one paragraph long and, of course, pictures. And movies. Best in several windows at once plus an open chat and music player. You can feel like you are living a full life! With such a multi-tasking style of existence, reading a book seems like a kind of austerity, a mortification of the flesh. Ever since school, anything seems nicer than that paper haircut.
4. Reading is unprofitable
It’s not about getting paid to read books. Other activities can at least indirectly increase our capital. At parties, we meet new people, which has the potential to result in cooperation; on social networks, we form our image, and this can have far-reaching consequences for the whole life: we are seen, evaluated, network reputation requires work.
Even in the cinema there is some sense: you can watch it with friends, share impressions and at least cheer up. With music the same, especially with dance or with well-known hits: dancing, singing in karaoke, someone to like (most often yourself).
How do you brag about a book? It is very unlikely that anyone you know has heard about the last book you read, much less read it. The last episode of “Breaking Bad” is completely different: everyone was watching it, it was something, eh?!
5. Reading? You are a loser.
Reading is unsexy and smells like a loser. Readers most often belong to one of the following groups:
- Botanists. They sit on the first desk, do all their homework, and rarely write off. They have problems with friendships and sexual relations. They are afraid of cigarettes, alcohol and panic, getting a four-plus. They are hated by everyone in the classroom, but nerds don’t care, they compensate for it with the admiration of teachers and points for the Olympics.
- Nonsense. Those who always have an exemption from exercise due to asthma or some kind of curvature of the spine. Unlike botanists, they do not let themselves be beaten, having an amazing ability to evaporate when it begins to smell fried, and forgetting about asthma when you need to take your hands in your feet. In the female version: crying, panties and whims.
- Aliens. No one knows them, no one has ever heard their voice, no one knows their name. Their circle of friends includes only other aliens, which no one knows either. Their supposedly amazing interests and extraordinary abilities (particularly in one field like computer science or mathematics) scare off potential curious people.
- Bookworm. People who have a form in the library. Distinctive sign: always carry at least five kilos of books. Their apartments are not for living, but for storing a book collection, so the most important tragedy for them is moving. They maniacally strive to increase their library and obsessively buy up all the paper that is not yet on their shelves. They laugh disdainfully at people who ask the question: Have you read all this?
Philology students – any of the above plus frustration.
In a world where everything should have a purpose, every action should be useful, time equals money, and a person is worth just as much as he managed to accumulate this money, reading becomes meaningless.
People who think books are useless should not read them. Let them dwell in a world of useless objects, incomprehensible principles and feelings, which they cannot describe. Let them believe what they see and listen to those who tell them what it really looks like. Let them humbly participate in the race imposed on them, but let them, for God's sake, ask no questions. But actually, what questions could they ask? They do not know any alternatives. published
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Source: vk.com/global_grammar_nazi?w=wall-25451458_282728
The truth is that a person can live perfectly without books. You can be loved, popular, achieve success and be known as an intelligent person, absolutely without contact with literature. So what? Nothing! This is reason enough to admit that reading is not a necessary attribute of life. Even Facebook can be more useful than books.
There are so many more important areas: work, family, clothing, shopping, friends, food, parties, sex, sports. And each, unlike the books, gives some advantages. Reading is antisocial, thanks to it you will not feel better (rather, exactly the opposite), it is impossible to impress. Why waste time doing something that doesn’t work for us when you can do so many other things that make sense in your life?
2. Reading takes a lot of time.
Movie: an hour and a half. Series: 30-55 minutes. Party/Beer Hall: Six hours plus a possible hangover the next morning. One hour. Music: It can sound background and doesn’t take time at all. And the book? To read a novel, you need to allocate at least a couple of dozen hours! Who in our time will have so much time? This is simply physically impossible: a person sits at work all day, tired as a dog comes home, goes shopping, then you need to cook something else, take care of a partner, children, pets. Closer to midnight, he is almost switched off and at his last breath he only manages to take a bottle of beer out of the refrigerator and jump on TV channels for half an hour, flipping through Facebook with the other hand. If a miracle happened and the children went to their grandmother (how often does it happen – three, four times a month?), he will not sit down for a book, but, of course, go to meet with friends, go to a movie, maybe a match, play a computer game or sit on Facebook. Anything takes less time than reading. The calculation is simple.
3. Reading is tiring
Since elementary school, we know that reading is anguish. Middle and high school only confirm this sad truth, you can breathe calmly only after the final exam. Get rid of lists of books, surveys on the knowledge of characters, essays, compositions with the interpretation of poems and control about literary eras. What normal person would want to go back to this nightmare?
After all, reading is a very tiring activity. Not only is it time-consuming (see paragraph 2), it also requires focusing on one activity, silence, serenity, solitude, and abandoning all distractions like the Internet and mobile phone. There's so much to do!
Therefore, the Internet wins: catchy statuses, articles one paragraph long and, of course, pictures. And movies. Best in several windows at once plus an open chat and music player. You can feel like you are living a full life! With such a multi-tasking style of existence, reading a book seems like a kind of austerity, a mortification of the flesh. Ever since school, anything seems nicer than that paper haircut.
4. Reading is unprofitable
It’s not about getting paid to read books. Other activities can at least indirectly increase our capital. At parties, we meet new people, which has the potential to result in cooperation; on social networks, we form our image, and this can have far-reaching consequences for the whole life: we are seen, evaluated, network reputation requires work.
Even in the cinema there is some sense: you can watch it with friends, share impressions and at least cheer up. With music the same, especially with dance or with well-known hits: dancing, singing in karaoke, someone to like (most often yourself).
How do you brag about a book? It is very unlikely that anyone you know has heard about the last book you read, much less read it. The last episode of “Breaking Bad” is completely different: everyone was watching it, it was something, eh?!
5. Reading? You are a loser.
Reading is unsexy and smells like a loser. Readers most often belong to one of the following groups:
- Botanists. They sit on the first desk, do all their homework, and rarely write off. They have problems with friendships and sexual relations. They are afraid of cigarettes, alcohol and panic, getting a four-plus. They are hated by everyone in the classroom, but nerds don’t care, they compensate for it with the admiration of teachers and points for the Olympics.
- Nonsense. Those who always have an exemption from exercise due to asthma or some kind of curvature of the spine. Unlike botanists, they do not let themselves be beaten, having an amazing ability to evaporate when it begins to smell fried, and forgetting about asthma when you need to take your hands in your feet. In the female version: crying, panties and whims.
- Aliens. No one knows them, no one has ever heard their voice, no one knows their name. Their circle of friends includes only other aliens, which no one knows either. Their supposedly amazing interests and extraordinary abilities (particularly in one field like computer science or mathematics) scare off potential curious people.
- Bookworm. People who have a form in the library. Distinctive sign: always carry at least five kilos of books. Their apartments are not for living, but for storing a book collection, so the most important tragedy for them is moving. They maniacally strive to increase their library and obsessively buy up all the paper that is not yet on their shelves. They laugh disdainfully at people who ask the question: Have you read all this?
Philology students – any of the above plus frustration.
In a world where everything should have a purpose, every action should be useful, time equals money, and a person is worth just as much as he managed to accumulate this money, reading becomes meaningless.
People who think books are useless should not read them. Let them dwell in a world of useless objects, incomprehensible principles and feelings, which they cannot describe. Let them believe what they see and listen to those who tell them what it really looks like. Let them humbly participate in the race imposed on them, but let them, for God's sake, ask no questions. But actually, what questions could they ask? They do not know any alternatives. published
P.S. And remember, just by changing our consumption, we change the world together! © Join us on Facebook , VKontakte, Odnoklassniki
Source: vk.com/global_grammar_nazi?w=wall-25451458_282728
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