/lit/ - Literature

>>22513851
Hear, hear!

Why does the average person has both an aversion towards books, and a veneration of them as something other wordly and sacred?
Its an ambivalent feeling
They feel like they should read more books, by a vague sense of duty and guilty whose origin I dont know, and that book=good
At the same time they (especially lower class/blue collar/old people) resent "learned" people maybe because they think college still produces cultured people from an elite of thought that read lots of valuable books full of wisdom
Its also funny that they take any book to have this "magic", so the mere fact of someone reading a book is something to go "wow", doesnt matter how bad the book is, because they dont read, and at the same time midwits think they are the shit because they read YA or some curriculumcore
And yet people who read books are either considered faggy in blue collar circles, or people who read classics considered chuds or arrogant in liberal educated ones
Old people sometimes also have the idea of a bookish oersona s someone who lost common sense for grand notions that dont apply in real life, which makes them a fool
I find it fascinating to be honest, how this ambivalent toward books hold for old people, blue collar people, and liberals but for different reasons