You might as well read a good book.
There is nothing like consuming deep, well-thought out prose. What do you want to know about? The origins of the universe? Why somebody else's explanations of the origin of the universe are utter bullshit? How to make a delicious vegetarian meatloaf? All of these things can be found in books.
Yet, there are also many stupid books. I don't know who lets these things get published and why there are so many of them. (Note: A sign of an intelligent person is admitting what you don't know.)
I thought about how we might come up with laws to reduce the number of stupid books. For example, we could elect an assembly of book-reviewers that could give anonymous ratings to books that are to be published. One problem here is that we had have to waste some very smart peoples' time reading many stupid books. They might even become corrupted! There are too many stupid books and not enough smart people. It seems to me that stupid is contagious, too.
This is not a time for pessimism, however. With the Internet, we can become smarter.
For now, bring any stupid books you have to your next bonfire party and help reduce the number of stupid books over s'mores. Then, when we go to buy books, the chances of finding a smart book will gradually increase. Simple and logical.
Stay woke,
Virtuous Centrists.
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