Anon06/23/25, 16:39No.24490172
Dunning Kruger effect, anyone? Reading is about the only channel we have to listen to the wise men of the past. If you think you're too smart to read Aristotle, Dante, Joyce or the Bible, then you're probably just too great a fool to recognize your own folly. Tate doesn't care about wisdom, he cares about hedonism. Pleasure in the present moment and possibly some present discomfort for the sake of pleasure in a future moment. For him there is no benefit to reading because it doesn't make you money, doesn't get you women, (I.e. future pleasure) and it doesn't provide momentary pleasure. He's a fag, no different from a feminist, only caring about pleasure and not truth, goodness, or beauty.
In addition, in Socrates' day, oral traditions still reigned supreme. He probably heard a shit ton of poetry recited and saw plays performed; these were his ways of accessing the wisdom of those who came before him in order to build upon them.