Illiteracy thread

[Anonymous No.16239033]

I’m curious, how many of you have not read a single book in the last year? How many have not read anything since high school?
If so, why do you come to /lit/?
Remember to be honest, it’s not like /lit/ gate keeps anymore so you have nothing to fear.

[Anonymous No.16239064]

>>16239033
Stop trying to act smug because you read some junk food novels. Literally no different than watching t.v. or movies. All fields

[Anonymous No.16239068]

>>16239033
mfw skipping over this thread

[Anonymous No.16239071]

Human intellect is a laughable conceit, I'm here to mock those who presume otherwise

[Anonymous No.16239074]

I haven't read a book since high school and haven't read for pleasure since probably middle school.

Not sure when I first started posting here, but I usually come here when there's nothing interesting on my main boards.

I usually lurk, but I sometimes make posts about philosophers I've never read and never will read. I've also repeated opinions I've read on here IRL to make people think I'm well read.

[Anonymous No.16239081]

>>16239033
This year I read 40 books in 3 different languages.

[Anonymous No.16239082]

>>16239064
I’m not trying to be smug, I’m genuinely curious, your evasive answer tells me that you don’t read. So why do you come here, what about it appeals to you?

[Anonymous No.16239089]

>>16239082
>continues to act smug because he reads junk food novels

[Anonymous No.16239097]

>>16239071
So you’re a coping mental retard.
>>16239074
So to larp?
>>16239081
Based, which languages?

[Anonymous No.16239104]

>>16239089
>continues to be evasive because he doesn’t want to admit that he has no reason to be here

[Anonymous No.16239115]

>>16239104
[smugness intensifies]

[Anonymous No.16239123]

>>16239115
[evasion intensifies]
I’m not going to insult you, I just want to know why you like it?

[Anonymous No.16239130]

>>16239123
>novel reading anon's smugness continues

[Anonymous No.16239145]

>>16239130
>non reading anon’s evasion continues
I concede, you’ve evaded, I’ll stop trying to appeal to you

[Anonymous No.16239151]

>>16239097
French, English and Portuguese.

[Anonymous No.16239155]

>>16239145
>smug novel reader needs the last word

[Anonymous No.16239171]

>>16239151
Is there much good Portuguese literature? I don’t doubt that there is but one doesn’t hear about Portuguese literature relative to many other nations despite the country’s long history.

[Anonymous No.16239275]

>>16239171
I can't say much about the portuguese part, but there is Fernando Pessoa in Portugal,but in Brazil, there's a good writer called Machado de Assis. It's a classic.

[Anonymous No.16239337]

>>16239033
I work night shifts in a laboratory, so end up reading a bunch in my down time; usually either various educational non-fiction or science fiction. So probably something like 10-20 book a year of various lengths.
But I only come to /lit/ to shitpost and make fun of leftist pseuds who just collect books they never actually read, because they like the idea of being "well read" far more than actually reading.

[Anonymous No.16239351]

>>16239033
Read 0 books for the past 6+ years.

Read Metro 2033 in like three days. Was cool but the book could have been better.

Feel for the "Start with the Greeks". Reading Mythology by Edith and having all the gods introduced is such a fucking slog i.e. this faggot god had 20 kids and his kids had x kids and BLAH BLAH BLAH I don't give a flying fuck. Kinda sad cause I loved her introduction. I know these characters are basically just for reference, so I am just gonna power through this boring part cause the real stories begin later. Can't wait to get there, finish this, and read Odyssey + Iliad + more greek history. :)

[Anonymous No.16239364]

>>16239351
Only nigga here that admitted to not reading. He is a real G. Good luck on your journey.

[Anonymous No.16239399]

>>16239097
>you're a coping mental retard
No, I'm correct. Book learned people are in fact among the bigger morons, entertaining the most ludicrous mental gymnastics, whereas the man on the street who runs on instinct tends to be worlds more consistent.

[Anonymous No.16239399,1]

>>16239033
I mainly hang around in case BAP makes a guest appearance tbh

[Anonymous No.16239414]

>>16239399
DAS RITE
Muhfuggin intlekshuls kno nuffin real n’ shieet!
Now hwhyte boi, s’time we got dem reperashuns we need!

[Anonymous No.16239435]

>>16239414
Race is a made up maymay. Your appeal to it only highlights the decrepitude of your faculties.

[Anonymous No.16239446]

>>16239435
>race is made up
Go back, absolute retard. Race is extremely real as a product of genetic differentiation occurring across thousands of years of development as separate human populations, races are literally visually evident.

[Anonymous No.16239457]

>>16239435
>Race is a made up
but like you can literally see it bro
it has an actual physical manifestation that you can directly perceive with your senses

[Anonymous No.16239470]

>>16239446
You must be American. You consider castizos who are full blooded Europeans nonwhite, yet the official definition of white includes arabs. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

[Anonymous No.16239471]

>>16239033
>How many have not read anything since high school?

I used to read so much, I have no idea wtf happened. I think I convinced myself that I was reading on the internet, so it was ok if I wasn't reading books.

[Anonymous No.16239472]

>>16239446
>mfw he thinks charles murray is a reputable source for science
wow anon. wow. it's 2020.

[Anonymous No.16239487]

>>16239470
I thought the official definition of race was "it doesn't exist until we need to use it to destroy whites in which case race exists again for the duration of this argument."

[Anonymous No.16239500]

>>16239446
how do you explain the greater similarity between the genetic makeup of certain whites and certain blacks than between certain white and certain other whites?

[Anonymous No.16239501]

>>16239470
I’m European
You just completely made up things I didn’t say, you can’t deny that ethnicity is real by pointing out the particularly retarded American understanding of it
>>16239472
I think that my eyes and reality are a reasonable source for seeing how people are different to one another
>muh source
Go back, obvious redditor

[Anonymous No.16239507]

>>16239501
oh...so you're just bigoted, cool
enjoy being a casualty of actual science

[Anonymous No.16239510]

>>16239487
That's just left wing crypto-racists. A perfect example of book learning gone awry.

[Anonymous No.16239511]

>>16239472
>wow anon. wow. it's 2020.

most of the time i can't tell if these posters are being ironic for the lolz or genuinely like this.

[Anonymous No.16239518]

>>16239501
I said race wasn't real, ethnicity is kind of real-ish.

[Anonymous No.16239524]

>>16239511
yeah, good point.

[Anonymous No.16239533]

>>16239435
Imo phrases like “decrepitude of your faculties“ make you seem less intelligent than if you just said “stupidity.” Brevity is the soul of wit brah

[Anonymous No.16239535]

>>16239500
How do you explain that a persons race and geographic origin can be easily predicted when viewing their wider genome rather than a few specific variable trait genes?

[Anonymous No.16239545]

>>16239533
I dont intend to appear intelligent. On the contrary I claim human intelligence is a myth promulgated by self-congratulatory apes.

[Anonymous No.16239547]

>>16239535
define geographic origin, are we talking immediate or ancestral?

[Anonymous No.16239556]

>>16239507
>he actually is a redditor
Fuck off faggot
Oh sorry, is that homophobic bigotry too?
>>16239518
You’re right, I shouldn’t have used a term like race, it’s a very muddy and unhelpful one, sorry.
Ethnicity is definitely real, though it’s a more complicated matter than many think, as is the case with much biology. It’s about as real as species are, a genetic continuum exists and there are no absolute boundaries, but differentiation is there nonetheless and effects interaction.

[Anonymous No.16239561]

>>16239535
also this can pretty easily be linked to the fact that a ton of correlary data is being amassed when looking at a "wider genome"

>>16239556
>literally concedes the point
nice

[Anonymous No.16239562]

>>16239547
Ancestral

[Anonymous No.16239572]

>>16239033
I have nothing in common with anyone on this board and I don't know why I still post here. I'm a liberal SJW who reads comic books, YA fiction, genre fiction, and books by women/POCs in addition to classics by straight white males. Over 90%of the threads on this board are either not about books, or about books I've never read. And apparently people like >>16239074 exist.

[Anonymous No.16239573]

>>16239561
This doesn’t change the very immediate reality of racial differentiation, that leads to conflict in every country on earth. And genetic differentiation would not be neatly defined, it’s biology, about the only perfectly differentiated thing in biology is sex, the gradient difference is still difference

[Anonymous No.16239583]

>>16239573
but no one denies the existence of ethnic differences
>that leads to conflict in every country on earth.
how is this not begging the question? your "conflict" is just racism manifesting in society dumbass

[Anonymous No.16239594]

>>16239033
My reading this year:
1776 (David McCullough)
The Odyssey (Homer, Robert Fagles)
A History if Central Banking And The Enslavement of Mankind (Stephen Mitford Goodson)
The Culture of Critque (Kevin MacDonald, audiobook)
Fairy and Folk Tales of The Irish Peasantry (W.B. Yeats and others)
Industrial Society And Its Future (Theodore Kaczynski)
Revolt Against The Modern World (Julius Ebola)
Ancient Iraq (Georges Roux)
Myths From Mesopotamia (Stephanie Daley translation)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Andrew George Translation)
I plan on continuing reading of ancient world history and literature of the ancient near East then the Greeks, after that I’ll have to find something else

[Anonymous No.16239597]

>>16239155
yea

[Anonymous No.16239598]

>>16239594
>Yeat
Oh I also forgot The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.16239601]

>>16239583
You have racial self preference already at 6 months old. It's perfectly natural and takes a lot of conditioning to reverse. Yet in the west racists are dehumanized, despite them being arguably more authentically human.

[Anonymous No.16239622]

>>16239487
t. doesnt understand what social construct means

[Anonymous No.16239637]

>>16239601
Doesn't prove that race is natural or more authentic only that humans have a strong in-group mentality.

[Anonymous No.16239667]

>>16239637
The point is babies can instinctually detect race well before their brains are developed enough to internalize elaborate social constructs, and naturally in group based on it.

[Anonymous No.16239668]

>>16239351
I feel like "start with the greeks" is just a cop-out to not reading the bible. Like you arrive at the idea you want to read some real way-back stuff that influences all the rest of literature to this day but can't bring yourself to actually read the bible.

[Anonymous No.16239668,1]

>>16239500
1. This is simply not true. It's a left-wing talking point that sounds chic-profound with no basis in fact.
2. Jews aren't white. They're about 10% nigger, a total of half MENA.

[Anonymous No.16239692]

>>16239668
Cause the Greeks came before the Bible, or at leas the complete version of it. But I think the Bible is AS important for understanding the western canon as any Greek stuff.

[Anonymous No.16239726]

Just trying to be well rounded I suppose, I enjoy some of the threads here and I get a lot of good and bad book recs here.

I have finished one book this year, but currently reading a few. I was inspired by someone irl who reads often and they are very cool and seem to know quite a bit on a lot of different things, and then again when someone I thought was lame had a huge catalogue of books and papers they’ve read and they always have something interesting to say. They also were reading something I finished last year and if it weren’t for that ability to connect on something like that I doubt we would have ever become acquaintances.

I also don’t watch T.V or YT so I figured might as well start reading. So far I enjoy it quite a bit.

[Anonymous No.16239730]

>>16239622
Just like gender, amirite?

[Anonymous No.16239753]

>>16239667
and we all know babies have infallible reasoning faculties. my, what an appeal, to...i don't know, infantile logic i suppose?

[Anonymous No.16239760]

>>16239753
If it's recognizable before socialization, it's not a social construct.

[Anonymous No.16239794]

>>16239753
This is about prerational instinct. It takes convoluted mind games to produce the aberration that is the white liberal, they aren't reasoned into it either.

[Anonymous No.16239820]

>>16239760
non sequitur

>>16239794
by convoluted mind games do you mean empiricism? because i think that's what you mean :^]

[Anonymous No.16239838]

>>16239820
No, I mean exactly what I said, you slobbering Pavlovian hound! Begone with your confabulated rationalizations.

[Anonymous No.16239851]

>>16239838
m8 babies cannot be our pinnacle of rationality. you sound like fucking thomas payne. if this is the strongest argument racists have to offer, i'm pretty vicariously embarrased for /lit/ for being so easily overrun by them.

[Anonymous No.16239865]

>>16239851
I thought liberals would approve of Paine (universal rights and all)

[Anonymous No.16239877]

>>16239851
>my brainwashing is merely rational empiricism
Keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous No.16239882]

>>16239877
i fuckin will anon. i fuckin will.

>>16239865
everyone except house pets.

[Anonymous No.16239884]

>>16239851
Not him but the strongest arguments racists have to offer are crime statistics and observations on the development of certain cultures prior to colonialism.
Not to mention the social instability of pluralistic polities, which is evident from a cursory examination of demography in western countries. This is a result of kin preference behaviour, the drive to improve the evolutionary success of your group to the detriment of outgroups.
Racism is only irrational once nobody else on Earth is racist as until that point not being racist puts you at risk long term, but because it’s an inherent behaviour, that’s not going to happen.

[Anonymous No.16239890]

The whole BLM protest thing has really demanded all my attention. Thinking about all those young black men going around and yelling, breaking things, running around, getting all sweaty... and the blood is flowing, so you know the BBCs are getting a bit swollen. My god.

[Anonymous No.16239892]

>>16239884
>that’s not going to happen.
see me in 2050 and make this claim again
your dreaded melting pot is happening whether you like it or not friendo

[Anonymous No.16239902]

>>16239892
The melting pot has already happened, the USA is really peaceful at the moment isn’t it?

[Anonymous No.16239907]

>>16239892
>you can't stop History
>you WILL merge into la Raza Cosmica
Wanna bet?

[Anonymous No.16239910]

>>16239902
do you really think you're on the victor's side in this conflict?

>>16239907
everything i have. which is about 14 usd.

[Anonymous No.16239916]

>>16239892
It’s not going to happen because racial tensions can’t consistently inflamed as racial groups stay insular, they don’t mix into one big multicolour group, because every group is racist and prefers their own. You can see this across Europe as well as in America

[Anonymous No.16239918]

>>16239892
Yeah, and look how that's turning out.

[Anonymous No.16239923]

>>16239910
I'm curious as to if you think the fusion of all races will bring an end of racial/ethnic conflict. I cannot see a future in which differing beliefs, physical features, and origins do not bring people into conflict.

[Anonymous No.16239924]

>>16239916
no, you see this across weird right-wing youtube channels and 4chan

>>16239918
conflict begets progress

[Anonymous No.16239927]

>>16239910
I don’t think I’m on the victors side of the changing demography, I think that the west will become increasingly pluralistic, increasingly socially uncohesive, and then it will get completely vassalised by China and Russia

[Anonymous No.16239931]

>>16239924
which is why the middle east is a utopia, rite

[Anonymous No.16239936]

>>16239924
>no, you see this across weird right-wing youtube channels and 4chan
No I see this in every large city I have ever lived in, and is made abundantly more obvious any time one looks at any kind of demographic report that relates to zoning

[Anonymous No.16239938]

>>16239927
>it will get completely vassalised by China and Russia
Both of those nations have very deep demographic issues that will stymie them in the future. I can't imagine them ever colonizing the West before those issues catch up to them.

[Anonymous No.16239939]

>>16239910
The successor ideology will collapse under the weight of it's own contradictions soon enough. Some've even taken to calling Asians white now. The thing's a mess of epicycles and excuses.

[Anonymous No.16239944]

>>16239924
>conflict begets progress
Yes, external conflict begets progress, as in the kind that drove wars in the past, internal conflict begets instability as cultures tear themselves apart rather than innovating (see late Rome’s invasion by Germans)
Additionally, did you just admit that racial plurality increases violence and conflict?

[Anonymous No.16239948]

>>16239923
i think modern capitalistic pressures necessitate it, yes. plus you're discounting the effects of miscegenation on demographics, the most obvious driver

>>16239927
sure whatever

>>16239931
religious extremism that will be wiped out by similar forces

>>16239936
sure you do pal. read up on what actual economists have to say about the benefits of immigration and stop listening to lauren southern

>>16239939
how irrelevant

>>16239944
temporarily. i'm not blind or ignorant to factual data like the rest of you

[Anonymous No.16239950]

>>16239938
Those demographic issues negatively effected them in the past compared to the west because the west was more homogenous, it didn’t have the same issues of self loathing that characterises the modern shift in outlook

[Anonymous No.16239955]

>>16239948
>how irrelevant
What? The ideological fabric tying together your multiracial/cultural society is a clusterfuck. How is that not relevant?

[Anonymous No.16239958]

>>16239955
because ideology has taken a backseat to economic pressures for over half a century at this point. you probably think the "liberal media" has an effect on policy too lmao

[Anonymous No.16239963]

>>16239927
what does it mean to become vassalized by china and russia?

[Anonymous No.16239966]

>>16239958
There's data showing this recent bout of racial autism was very media driven, so yeah it does have an effect, economic reductionism is a limited view.

[Anonymous No.16239968]

>>16239948
>sure you do pal. read up on what actual economists have to say about the benefits of immigration
Immigration reduces wages by increasing work competition, billionaires aren’t immigrating to create jobs. More populous work forces have always reduced wages going back centuries
It creates a more thriving economy and wealthier rich people, but that isn’t a healthy state.
>temporarily
Except it’s never gone away with time, give a single example of when that has happened without total conquest.
>sure whatever
Literally no argument
>how irrelevant
The collapse of a canniballistic ideology built on sand is not irrelevant, it’s already led to mass rioting in the United States

[Anonymous No.16239977]

>>16239033
I haven't read/read for pleasure in about 2 years. I come here because I'm interested in the topics, authors and books spoken about when there's a good thread, but too apathetic to take the leap and actually read them.

[Anonymous No.16239980]

>>16239963
it means we have to learn chinese and eat dogs and not say bad things about whoever is in charge

[Anonymous No.16239984]

>>16239980
that has no real chance of actually happening on us soil or european soil, right? how would that even come to fruition without extreme horrifying bloodshed?

[Anonymous No.16239993]

>>16239984
Economic pressure.

[Anonymous No.16239994]

>>16239966
this recent bout of "racial autism" is not policy. the rage behind it is precisely located in the LACK of policy reform addressing these issues.

>>16239968
you seem intelligent enough to understand just how irrelevant this mass rioting is to these billionaires, and there is no data to suggest wages will drop in the U.S. due to immigration, quite the opposite in fact.

>Except it’s never gone away with time,
every study done on this phenomenon concludes cultural differences subside within 2, 3 generations max. do you know the data you're relying on here, like even remotely? sounds like you're about to bring up the fall of rome or some other such irrelevant talking point

[Anonymous No.16240013]

>>16239994
>cultural differences subside within 2, 3 generations max
This assumes cultural immersion. Cultural immersion does not happen with large immigrant populations because they stay insular to themselves within their own culture, as can be seen in large English Muslim populations.
>sounds like you're about to bring up the fall of rome or some other such irrelevant talking point
>Historical accounts of large demographic change are irrelevant, but predictive data that assumes many things not present in reality is good
Lmao

[Anonymous No.16240014]

>>16239993
what does that mean? china flourish while we dwindle? how can that be explained? trump wants to stop overreliance to china for that very reason, right?

[Anonymous No.16240028]

>>16240013
your large english muslim populations have simply not had the requisite time to allow for immersion. like i've been saying, wait 20 years and try to have this exact debate again.

i reaaaally hope you're not taking fucking stefan molyneux's position on rome here. it's patently absurd and reductive, not to mention refuted by actual scholars of the subject for decades. also irrelevant to this modern context of uber-capitalistic interests driving policy.

[Anonymous No.16240035]

>>16240013
>>16240028
Thank you guys for having a good discussion. It's actually interesting to read.

[Anonymous No.16240039]

>>16239994
You're saying the riots won't accomplish shit? So what good is your beloved melting pot then, if it means an unresponsive and increasingly authoritarian government totally beholden to GDP growth?

[Anonymous No.16240055]

>>16240039
i think they will slightly move the democratic party towards reform, but not for any reason other than optics. reparations, for example, won't be a tenable public policy for at least another decade probably. but that's just how politics work now, i'm not complaining

[Anonymous No.16240074]

>>16240055
If it's all driven by pure economic self interest, how is reparations ever going to be on the table? Ideology clearly trumps greed in this instance.

[Anonymous No.16240075]

>>16240028
>large english muslim populations have simply not had the requisite time to allow for immersion. like i've been saying, wait 20 years and try to have this exact debate again.
Muslims have been immigrating to the uk for well over 70 years, and the problem is getting worse and more hostile, not better. They’ve already passed your time limit twice over, and they still aren’t integrated. If we were having this conversation in 20 years, you’d tell me to wait another 20 years.
>Stefan molymeme
I know literally nothing about his opinions on anything other than the way he pretends he’s not retarded when he obviously is.
>irrelevant because of change of ideology to capitalistic policy
Not everything that drives change is policy of the state, only complete morons think this way. Capitalistic policy drives immigration, immigration is financially profitable for the very rich, and plurality reduces cohesion of the working class, reducing chances of working together against the rich.

[Anonymous No.16240079]

>>16240055
Reparations are a purely ideological idea, not driven by capitalism. It’s also an insane idea for the historical amnesiac.

[Anonymous No.16240093]

What website lists all their files as "a4" "a21" "a17" etc?
Is that "know your meme"?

[Anonymous No.16240114]

>>16240074
no, the black population has been underperforming for its entire history in the u.s. there's definitely an incentive to increase actual
generational wealth in this arena, tied in with education and infrastructure. plus you can't underestimate the value of good optics.

>>16240075
> plurality reduces cohesion of the working class
so many studies refute this i can't believe you're being intellectually honest here
>Muslims have been immigrating to the uk for well over 70 years,
mass immigration has not been an issue until quite recently, and i do agree it's something that requires legislation and reform to handle. but this idea that 70 year deep muslim families are the source of unrest is just misleading.

>>16240079
capitalism finds a way my friend. reparations as a policy originates in ideology, but its utility has yet to be agreed upon, so it remains a political dead zone. as soon as economists say otherwise the tide will turn, mark my words

>>16240093
it's just an interal rubric for me to keep track of these. every one has been downloaded from 4chan, don't worry ;]

[Anonymous No.16240161]

>>16240114
Economists may say otherwise, but academics of all kinds tend to be beholden to ideology, after all look at the way the psychological field views genetic sexual differentiation as completely ignorable.
>so many studies refute this i can't believe you're being intellectually honest here
Could you link some? I don’t doubt that you can but I’d like to see their methodology. You should be less beholden to peer review though, you seem to base all your beliefs off of it despite its significant flaws
t.heavily involved with academic processes
>Muslim immigration is recent
It began in significant number during the 60s, not the 2000s, incidentally, while a population remains part of that foreign culture, they are most certainly not integrated.

[Anonymous No.16240165]

>>16240114
>no, the black population has been underperforming for its entire history in the u.s. there's definitely an incentive to increase actual generational wealth in this arena, tied in with education and infrastructure.
You haven't explained why this is in the capitalists' interest. If anything the traditional Marxist explanation for racism, that a racial underclass benefits them by dividing the working class makes more sense. Homogenizing the proletariat works against them.
>optics
For whom? Why would they as a class care what the plebs think of them?

[Anonymous No.16240204]

>>16239597
HAH.

[Anonymous No.16240251]

>>16240161
https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/high_skilled_immigration_increases_innovation
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/547697/MAC-_report_immigration_and_the_labour_market.pdf
you're ignoring my specific reference to mass immigration and the negligible amount of 2 or 3 generations deep immigrant families and their societal disruption.

>>16240165
because the black population is increasing in proportional population and economic relevance. basically, they're finally becoming a class worth reckoning with, and the historical setbacks they've faced very much stand in the way of their development, in terms of power, as both an economic and political base
>for whom?
for the silly white liberals you're railing against anon

[Anonymous No.16240436]

>>16240251
>because the black population is increasing in proportional population
Wrong, this is declining as immigration continues and is not relevant if democracy is a sham.
>And economic relevance.
Their median wealth is still pitiful.
>basically, they're finally becoming a class worth reckoning with, and the historical setbacks they've faced very much stand in the way of their development, in terms of power, as both an economic and political base
You were claiming ideology is irrelevant and now you're saying democracy matters? Why would optics matter at all if ideology was unimportant? Is economics the ultimate prime mover or not? You seem muddled, as is typical of your ilk. I'm not even sure if you're claiming further multiculturalism is a good thing or just inevitable.

[Anonymous No.16240450]

Think I've read 6 or 7, but my memory is fucking awful. Two were about Marxism, took a bunch of notes and forgot it all anyway. I hate my fucking brain.

[Anonymous No.16240514]

>>16240251
>specific reference to mass immigration
Muslim mass immigration to the UK began after World War Two, it was great enough to have these insular communities forming by the late 60s when integration was overtaken by growing pockets of foreign culture, the amount has not been negligible for over 50 years, once you have communities of hundreds of people making up tens of thousands nationally, it is already non-negligible. You’re blatantly wrong, but I don’t expect you to move past your cognitive dissonance and admit that the integration period has been hugely surpassed.
>links about immigrant workers
The positives are in reference to highly skilled workers, not the majority of immigrants. Additionally, my point was that plurality within the working class causing reduced cohesion of the working class against the rich, which you have shown nothing to dispute; the second link even contains acknowledgment of the displacement of native workers, and the primary positives listed are the growth of GDP, which disproportionately affects the wealthy, it even makes reference to the social cohesion reduction that I have been telling you about.
Almost all your talking points come down to evasive rhetoric, commonly using exceptional cases, as would be expected of liberal capitalists.

[Anonymous No.16240573]

>>16239033
>I’m curious, how many of you have not read a single book in the last year?
I'm taking a break and just reading Dicken's because I am just burned out on everything else. I will probably start again after Nicholas Nickleby is done. Pickwick Papers was bad ass.

[Anonymous No.16241498]

I actually can't read. I use text to audio, then audio to text. Sometimes it comes out all weird.

I don't know why I come to this board. I like the pictures?

[Anonymous No.16242022]

>>16239668
As I am reading Edith, I realize Zeus is literally God in the bible. They keep changing him and the idea of Zeus morphs into God himself.

Really BTFOs out religious retards cause you know God doesn't exist at all now - it was just a transformed idea over many hundreds of years.

[Anonymous No.16242634]

>>16239033
It’s pretty pathetic but I’ll admit that I haven’t read a book since high school. I just read articles, journals and papers. I go here with 2nd hand knowledge. It’s not a larp though and I mostly don’t read books because I have a fucked up attention span and ADD.

[Anonymous No.16242691]

>>16239500
That misinterpretation has been debunked for ages. When you account for loci (as opposed to single alleles), there is no black and white person on the planet more genetically similar to eachother than to their own clusters.

[Anonymous No.16243038]

>>16239399
Almost everything the man on the street engages with was built by book learned individuals. You don’t learn how to build sky scrapers on instinct.

[Anonymous No.16243336]

>>16242022
He speaks the truth.

[Anonymous No.16243342]

>>16243038
lmao how deluded are you?

Yeah us construction guys like to read poetry to each other all day! My boss made sure I finished reading my textbook before I started hammering nails!

Everything real is learned by experience you absolute joke!

[Anonymous No.16243782]

>>16243342
He's talking about the important people: engineers. Not dumb people who know how to swing a hammer.

Cope harder bluefag.

[Anonymous No.16243947]

>>16243782
Engineers think you book-fags are absolutely retarded, they think you're a joke.

[Anonymous No.16244071]

>>16239500
>certain blacks
black americans are a subgroup of the angloman

[Anonymous No.16244172]

>>16243947
I am actually an engineer lol

[Anonymous No.16244238]

>>16239033
Reading through Plato this month. Half school, half leisure. Already finished Phaedo, Crito, Euthyphro. About 30 pages into Republic. Reading Infinite Jest as well.

[Anonymous No.16244258]

>>16239033
I'm just here to tell you i didn't even finished reading your OP
get fucked

[Anonymous No.16244284]

>>16239171
Not enough to learn the language unless you have other interests in Portugal/Brazil. Sorry my Portugues friends, but you know it is true.

[Anonymous No.16244444]

>>16244172
Rrrrright and your claiming that skyscapers get build on book-knowledge and not experience-learned skill?

Are you fucking serious? If you are you're a fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.16244456]

>>16244172
>>16244444
>Quints
And don't be such a joke as to imply that practicing computations and calculations is equivalent to being "book-smart".