• Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlM
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    Rich westerners with access to all the treasures of the world’s literature, freely available, seconds away: “I can’t be bothered to read”.

    WW1 soldiers suffering from the most brutal war in history:

    We came down to the front of the Twelfth Army, back of Riga, where gaunt and bootless men sickened in the mud of desperate trenches; and when they saw us they started up, with their pinched faces and the flesh showing blue through their torn clothing, demanding eagerly, “Did you bring anything to read?”

    • Jack Reed - the ten days that shook the world
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      To be empathetic to them, our schools fucking suck, they teach most people to hate reading really, it’s ingenious of the ruling class, teach your population to read but make it so torturous in school that the majority won’t use it to educate or even entertain themselves