- Joined
- Oct 23, 2024
I don't have a specific reddit post to share, but rather I'm quite MATI when how whenever I look up literally ANY book to read to know if it's worth sinking hours of my time into, all I can find are reddit threads which only seem to evaluate books on the political background of the author and how it influences the content. E.G.; Sometimes I want to know if certain conspiratorial books are worth my time since those can be a bit of a mixed bag in terms of where they get their sources and etc, but unless I do the digging myself, all I find are Reddit threads that seem more concerned if the book aligns with their hecking science rather than if it's legit or not. Or if I want to read some fiction, typically all I can find are people complaining about the hecking problematic scenes when I literally just want to know if the book is good. And sometimes the book itself has nothing to do with politics, but rather, Reddit has such a particular disdain for the author that I cannot tell whether their criticism is valid or not because I know they are incapable of viewing anything subjectively. Really my only solution is just to stop looking into books and instead come to my own conclusions as I go along, and while that's not a bad thing on its own, I do just miss having genuine discussion of literature. I like looking up stuff so that I can avoid biased opinions and being cornered in an echo-chamber, and yet there is nowhere to turn to BUT echo-chambers. I stopped using this thread because while the stuff here is entertaining it was starting to make me too mad in light of recent events, however even a hobby as innocent as fucking reading has been infected by the Reddit mind-virus and it's seemingly impossible to avoid it.






