To some degree you’re right, reading doesn’t make you intelligent in and of itself, but I do think constantly reading like that does make you to some degree smarter. Like even if you’re reading slop, you’re probably smarter than if you had been reading nothing.

It has also been proven that reading makes you more empathetic, because you are actively putting yourself in the character’s headspace.

Have you seen the Homogenic album cover? She doesn’t even hide she’s an alien.

The word you’re looking for already exists, it’s egalitarianism lol.

You can tell that was a really satisfying shit because right after it’s finished it stops moving for a second.

I literally never said that, even said I didn’t like one of them. Sorry but most of the time they’re considered classics precisely because they are good, there’s a million other books printed from those eras that aren’t considered classics.

I’ve read most of them and they’re mostly great, only one I read I didn’t really like was Catcher in the Rye. Fahrenheit 451 is a classic, I’ve read it of my own free will.

No offense dude but you kind of just sound like a teenager going “reading is dumb”.