Come On Eileen! (Dyslexics Midnight Summers)

   Nina Strohminger

 retweeted

 Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly Aug 9

Blog like nobody's reading. Because: They're not.



KNOW WHAT I'VE COME TO REALIZE? I'VE COME TO REALIZE THAT THE AUDIENCE THAT I'M TRYING TO REACH ON THIS BLOG (THE AUDIENCE THAT I'M TRYING TO TARGET ON THIS BLOG, WHICH IS THE YOUNG, URBAN, HIP HOP, GENERATION ME DEMOGRAPHIC) IS TOO UNINTELLIGENT, TOO UNEDUCATED, TOO INEXPERIENCED, AND TOO UNSOPHISTICATED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEING EXPRESSED IN THESE EXCERPTS, LET ALONE RELATE TO THEM AND APPLY THEM TO THEIR LIFE. THEY BARELY GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, HAVE NO PATIENCE, AND CAN HARDLY READ. WHAT MAKES ME THINK THAT THEY'LL HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE, PATIENCE, AND READING ABILITY TO TAKE THE TIME OUT OF THEIR MEANINGLESS DAY TO UNDERSTAND THIS STUFF? THE SAME GOES FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES (BLACKS AND BROWNS) WHO GRADUATED FROM LESS PRESTIGIOUS 4-YEAR UNIVERSITIES. MOST OF THEM DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS STUFF, NOR DO THEY WANT TO. THEY HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OR BACKGROUND IN ANY OF THIS AND THEREFORE CAN'T FATHOM IT, NOR DO THEY WANT TO FATHOM IT. UNFATHOMABLE

THIS ISN'T ABOUT FINDING YOUR ROOTS OR APPRECIATING OTHER CULTURES. THIS IS ABOUT UNIVERSAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS THAT LEAD TO OUR THOUGHTS, BEHAVIOR, SOCIETAL FORMATION, ETC.

Like The Turn Of A Page (Joni Like A Bull In A China Shop)

  https://twitter.com/LiteraryVienna/status/1644442424964415490

LiteraryVienna

@LiteraryVienna

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Apr 7

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.“ Ezra Pound Guide to Kulchur, 1938

Rob Henderson on X: "Montaigne (1572) on the left and Mortimer Adler (1940) on the right. When reading, don’t be deterred if you come across a difficult passage. Just keep reading and soon you will find things you do understand. https://t.co/vr3aWD57gc" / X

Rob Sica on X: ""Might not reading the best works of philosophy, accessible in every library, be no worse a way to engage with the subject than seeking a Socrates-like conversational partner?" https://t.co/mQVKMckg2a" / X

The same rationale applies to all other subjects. You can learn much more about a topic by reading about it rather than talking about it.

"BLACK PEOPLE UNFORTUNATELY DO NOT READ." - KODAK SCOTT

https://x.com/random_walker/status/1925549150587724009

https://x.com/AnechoicMedia_/status/1906219968925954326

 https://www.instagram.com/p/BRn1FCsF10e/?taken-by=jumpman_hq

BLACK PEOPLE ONLY PRETEND TO READ WHEN IT MAKES THEM LOOK LIKE ALTRUISTS GIVING MONEY, TIME, AND BOOKS TO BLACK CHILDREN AND BLACK COMMUNITIES! IN OTHER WORDS, BLACKS WILL BUY BOOKS AND PRETEND THAT THEY'RE READERS IF DOING SO MAKES THEM LOOK BETTER (SMARTER, WEALTHIER, MORE SELFLESS). THAT'S THE ONLY TIME YOU'LL SEE A NIGGER WITH A BOOK!

READ MA LIPZ!

"Heaven! I'm In Heaven!...I Can Hardly Speak!" - Fred A Stare!

Hari Kunzru

@harikunzru

“A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library” - Daniel Dennett

https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1881501068288487640

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqo-w1qvws
"ALREADY READ 'EM" - THEREALMAXXX (A USERNAME THE ADVERSARY CREATED ON THE SICCNESS MESSAGE BOARD IN 2004)! 

Steve Stewart-Williams‏ @SteveStuWill

Carl Sagan on genes, brains, and books (from Cosmos) https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/in-the-words-of-carl-sagan/ …

ATTENTION: I'M FORCING MY VIEWERS TO READ, ESPECIALLY MY BLACC VIEWERS BECAUSE BLACC PEOPLE DON'T READ. NOTICE HOW I POST FEW PHOTOS AND NON-LINKED VIDEOS ON THIS BLOG (THE VIDEOS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO CLICK ON A LINK TO SEE)? THAT'S BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW AND I WANT YOU ALL TO READ. FOLKZ, WE LIVE IN AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE'RE CONSTANTLY BARRAGED AND INUNDATED WITH VISUAL STIMULATION. AS A RESULT, READING HAS TAKEN A BACKSEAT TO MORE VISUALLY ORIENTED FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT AND COMMUNICATION AND OUR ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME ON MENTALLY ENGAGING AND MENTALLY STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS READING, HAS DECREASED. SO I'M CHALLENGING YOU ALL (ESPECIALLY MY BLACC READERS) TO SIT DOWN, STARE AT YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN FOR A FEW HOURS A DAY AND FORCE YOURSELVES TO READ, ENJOY READING, AND INCREASE YOUR ATTENTION SPANS IN THE PROCESS. YOU'LL BE BETTER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THIS.

https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1834656279152742582

Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

“It came down to one thing: The phones. The end…If you want to identify the main enemy of book culture, it’s smartphone culture…That’s where all the readers went. They’re scrolling and swiping, instead of turning pages.”

https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1638226132423024653

https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1828443854003163281

THE TRUTH‏ @PACMANDAGUNMANSep 30
Dedicate 1 hour a day to reading a book, trust me. Coach Luster‏ @jaydeelusterApr 18  Self education is free! My goal is to read a book each month of the year! These are the 4 books I have read so far this year!
MY NIGGAZ IZ EDUCATIN' THEMSELVES!

 http://news.usc.edu/120454/book-em-fans-families-flock-to-nations-largest-literary-festival/
 https://twitter.com/latimesfob
I Missed This Festival. You Can Read About It And See The People That Attended It In The Links Above, Though! 

A Brief History Of Reading Through The Ages | Book Riot

Read a Book Day: Overview of the History from Printing to AI

http://bigthink.com/videos/from-papyrus-to-ipad-the-evolution-of-reading

http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Mind-Cognitive-Approach-Understanding/dp/1119301378/

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-New-Science-Read/dp/0143118056

https://www.amazon.com/Proust-Squid-Story-Science-Reading/dp/0060933844/

http://www.amazon.com/Born-Reading-Bringing-Bookworms-Everything/dp/1476749795

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-jason-boog-born-reading-newborns-20140724-story.html

Reading Is Fundamental!
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Onscreen-Reading-Digital-World/dp/0199315760/

https://twitter.com/PACMANDAGUNMAN/status/546394658226442240
They Might Not Be The Books I Want You To Read, MR. GUNMAN, But I'm Glad To See You're Investing Your Money Wisely, My Nigga! It's Better Than Spending It On All That Other Meaningless, Non-Mentally Beneficial Stuff In The World. Plus, It's A Gift To Yourself That Keeps On Giving (You Can Read The Books Again And Again Throughout Your SHORT Lifespan And Then Pass Them On To Friends And Family As Gifts Once You Die!).

https://twitter.com/Billy_Knight33
Billy's Got A Nice Little Collection There. He Might Be Trying To Equal My Collection. I'm Going To Have To Match Him Book For Book. (Runaway Conspicuous Consumption For Intellectual Status, Folkz!) 

GO BOOK FOR BOOK WITH, MY NIGGA!

George Raveling‏Verified account @GeorgeRaveling Jul 19

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Most hyper-successful people attribute their success to one great habit: reading! #RavReads

George, How Did They Have Time To Become Successful If They Were Reading All Of Those God Damn Books! George, I Think You're Confusing Correlation With Causality Here. I Think Higher IQ People Tend To Read Books Throughout Their Life And That This Higher IQ Is Also Responsible For Their Economic And Social Success And Not The Other Way Around (More Books Read Resulting In Greater Economic And Social Success? Makes No Sense!)! Understand That George? Their Success Isn't A Product Of Their Book Reading. Their Success Is A Product Of Their Intelligence And Their Intelligence Leads Them To Read More Books! George, If Book Reading Alone Led To Success I'd Be A Multimillionaire!

goodreads‏Verified account@goodreadsMay 14

What would your dream reading nook have? https://bit.ly/2W6dNdm

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/apr23/world-book-day/

I HAVE SO MANY GOOD EXCERPTS THAT I WANT YOU DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS TO READ. THEY'LL MAKE SO MUCH SENSE AND YOU'LL THINK TO YOURSELVES "GOD, THAT APPLIES DIRECTLY TO MY LIFE. THAT'S EXACTLY HOW I THINK OR EXACTLY HOW I BEHAVE."

ASHANTI, WHY I AM EXCERPTING PASSAGES FROM ACADEMIC BOOKS AND CREATING LINKS TO ACADEMIC PAPERS/ARTICLES? TO SHINE A LIGHT ON THE WORK OF SCHOLARS SO THAT ETHNIC MINORITIES (POOR BLACKS AND BROWNS) MAY BECOME INTERESTED OR INSPIRED TO DO SIMILAR WORK? HELL NO. I'M DOING THIS SO THAT ETHNIC MINORITIES AND CELEBRITIES LIKE YOURSELF BECOME CONSCIOUS OF WHY THEY DO WHAT THEY DO (THE EVOLUTIONARY, GENETIC, AND BIOLOGICAL REASON FOR THEIR THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIOR) AND REALIZE THAT WHAT THEY DO (THEIR FORM OF WORK) AND THE LIVES THEY LEAD ARE MEANINGLESS. (IF YOU'RE NOT HELPING SOCIETY PROGRESS THROUGH SCIENCE, YOUR LIFE IS MEANINGLESS.)

SOMETIMES I MAKE SPELLING AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OR ACCIDENTALLY OMIT WORDS OR ARRANGE THEM IN THE WRONG ORDER WHEN I COPY PASSAGES FROM BOOKS. SO PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU'RE READING THE EXCERPTS I'VE TAKEN FROM BOOKS ON ALL 3 OF MY BLOGS.

I HAVE SO MANY PASSAGES THAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL THAT EXPLAIN HUMAN THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY AND NON-HUMAN PRIMATE (GREAT APE) PERSPECTIVE AND MAKE SO MUCH SENSE. I WISH IT WASN'T SO TIME CONSUMING AND TEDIOUS TO COPY ALL OF THEM. BEAR WITH ME.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/university-students-are-struggling-to-read-entire-books-a6986361.html

GRADUATE LEVEL INFORMATION THAT I'M PROVIDING TO YOU ALL.

 Jaipreet Virdi‏Verified account @jaivirdi 

His & Hers. #WorldBookDay

http://british.museumblog.org/world-book-day-leafing-through-the-pages-of-history/

UNLV Basketball ‏@TheRunninRebels  Mar 4

Barry Cheaney participated in Nevada Reading Week at Paradise Elementary yesterday. #UNLVmbb

"Muh. Airy. Haa. Uh. Lil. Lil. Lam." - U.N.L.V. Nigger Reading! 
"WELCOME FELLOW SCHOLARS! AND REMEMBER, READING IS FUNDAMENTAL!" - JOHN CHAINEY SON BARRY!

Kobe Bryant
NBA champion, Academy Award–winning storyteller, and coauthor of The Wizenard Series: Training Camp.

"To me, a great summer read captures your attention and transports you to a new world while teaching you life lessons about your own. It should have compassion, imagination, and vibrant storytelling."

Here are his summer reading picks: 

LOOK AT KOBE'S LIST OF BOOKS. HE READS CHILDREN'S BOOKS. HE'S GOT THE READING COMPREHENSION OF A 12-YEAR-OLD! I WAS READING BOOKS LIKE THIS IN 6th GRADE. THIS IS JUST FURTHER PROOF THAT THE NIGGER MIND IS LIKE A CHILD'S MIND! THE NIGGER HAS THE INTELLECT EQUIVALENT TO AN ADOLESCENT! NOW COMPARE HIS BOOK PREFERENCES TO THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE LIST! THOSE PEOPLE READ BOOKS THAT TAKE SOME SOPHISTICATION AND EDUCATION TO READ. THAT IS, THEY READ BOOKS FOR THEIR AGE AND INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY! I MEAN, WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU NEED THAT THE BLACK MIND IS CHILD INCLINED!

goodreads‏Verified account @goodreadsMay 9

We asked the well-known and well-read, including @Trevornoah, @jennabushhager, @kobebryant, and more to define their idea of a perfect summer read and pick three books that fit their description: https://bit.ly/2vIBnhJ 
#SummerReading

https://www.amazon.com/Fatherhood-Evolution-Human-Paternal-Behavior/dp/0674064186/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7970930-fatherhood

Do You Think The Book Cover Is A Coincidence And Not Directed To The Black Male Population? Do You Think They Just Randomly Chose A Black Man And Black Baby To Be On The Cover Of A Book Dealing With The Evolution Of Fatherhood Rather Than A White Man And White Baby? If You Do You're Living In Fantasy Land. I Wonder Why No Blacks Have Called Peter A Racist. I'm Waiting For That Call Peter. (You Gotta Runnin' Rebel On YO Hands Peter.)  

http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP08336339.pdf

"Holdin' A Conference Call On My Hands FREE Car Telephone Lookin' Like I'm Talkin' To Myself!" - MADD MAXXXINE 40 WATERS

https://evolution-institute.org/evolution-of-human-fatherhood/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130107110538.htm
Current Cultural Practice With Regard To Parenting Are Resulting In Disastrous Life Outcomes (Poor Parenting Practices In Infancy Leading To Children, Teenagers, And Adults Who Are Psychologically And Behaviorally Impaired And Thus Unable To Properly Function In Society).

 https://www.amazon.com/Ancestral-Landscapes-Human-Evolution-Childrearing/dp/0199964254

 SteveStewartWilliams Retweeted

 SteveStewartWilliams ‏@SteveStuWill 7 Oct 2015

If you want your kids to read, your best bet is to have kids with a reader http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093934X15001662 …

16 retweets 18 likes

https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/yale-study-people-who-read-live-longer-than-people-who-dont/

https://medium.com/the-mission/book-readers-live-longer-8d079f479f91#.ppvsd48zr

Nina Strohminger retweeted

 Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly Aug 9

Blog like nobody's reading. Because: They're not.



"BLACK PEOPLE UNFORTUNATELY DO NOT READ." - KODAK SCOTT

KNOW WHAT I'VE COME TO REALIZE? I'VE COME TO REALIZE THAT THE AUDIENCE THAT I'M TRYING TO REACH ON THIS BLOG (THE AUDIENCE THAT I'M TRYING TO TARGET ON THIS BLOG, WHICH IS THE YOUNG, URBAN, HIP HOP, GENERATION ME DEMOGRAPHIC) IS TOO UNINTELLIGENT, TOO UNEDUCATED, TOO INEXPERIENCED, AND TOO UNSOPHISTICATED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEING EXPRESSED IN THESE EXCERPTS LET ALONE RELATE TO THEM AND APPLY THEM TO THEIR LIFE. THEY BARELY GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, HAVE NO PATIENCE, AND CAN HARDLY READ. WHAT MAKES ME THINK THAT THEY'LL HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE, PATIENCE, AND READING ABILITY TO TAKE THE TIME OUT OF THEIR MEANINGLESS DAY TO UNDERSTAND THIS STUFF? THE SAME GOES FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES (BLACKS AND BROWNS) WHO GRADUATED FROM LESS PRESTIGIOUS 4-YEAR UNIVERSITIES. MOST OF THEM DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS STUFF, NOR DO THEY WANT TO. THEY HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OR BACKGROUND IN ANY OF THIS AND THEREFORE CAN'T FATHOM IT, NOR DO THEY WANT TO FATHOM IT.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-Books-Much/dp/1594484813

https://x.com/JP_Books/status/1777320596956999943
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lives-Booksellers-Librarians-bestsellers/dp/0316567531

https://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dictionary/dp/0060839783

Gurwinder

@G_S_Bhogal

W. C. Minor suffered paranoid delusions, which led him to murder a man. While locked in a mental asylum he contributed over 10,000 examples of word usage to the 1st Oxford English Dictionary before chopping off his own penis, which means we owe much of our language to a madman.

https://twitter.com/akarlin88/status/1119208061208539136

http://www.unz.com/akarlin/book-density-iq/
THE ONLY BOOKS MEXICANS READ ARE COOK BOOKS AND CAR MANUALS!

https://twitter.com/IllimitableMan/status/821894628391657472/photo/1 

1.  P. D. Mangan
🇺🇸 ‏@Mangan150 Jan 18
Only the truly good books - top 1% - still stand out as worth buying and reading. The internet has culled the rest.

1.  Dr. Jonathan Chung ‏@drjonathanchung Jan 18 
@Mangan150 people writing books as a vehicle to sell themselves as opposed to genuinely good content

https://twitter.com/wsj/status/779394989155577856

Let's Go Half On A Book, Baby!

 A Book Only Gulliver Could Handle!
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-jonathan-swift-20170224-story.htmlPrevious 

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1483907192436801542

David Schmitt Retweeted

 SteveStewartWilliams‏ @SteveStuWill Sep 1

Predicting Personality from Book Preferences https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06643  HT @annalyzin

 What Do You Like To Read? Do You Like To Read?

P. D. Mangan
🇺🇸‏ @Mangan150 37m37 minutes ago
Took me a long time to realize that hardly anyone was as interested in books and ideas as me. Seems incredibly naive now.
P. D. Mangan
🇺🇸‏ @Mangan150 37m37 minutes ago
Replying to @Mangan150
Even among the college educated, I'd bet most never pick up a difficult book after college for the rest of their lives.

NaughtyInPublic‏ @naughtypublic Feb 19

Library fun

https://twitter.com/naughtypublic/status/1097778660873027584

NOW, READ THIS MA NIGGAZ!

Rolf Degen on X: "Reading for pleasure has systematically declined in recent decades. Reading for pleasure has a wide range of benefits for literacy, employment, health, and wellbeing as well as promoting cultural understanding. However, previous monitoring of reading in the United States has" / X

The proportion who read on an average day declined over the last 20 years, from highs of 29% in 2004 to lows of 18% in 2023; a relative decrease of 2% per year. This was driven by decreases in reading for personal interest, as there were not changes in reading with children over time. The decline in reading for personal interest over the past 20 years in the US is consistent with the most robust previous evidence. This decline is concerning given earlier evidence for downward trends in reading for pleasure from the 1940s through to the start of our study in 2003, suggesting at least 80 years of continued decline in reading for pleasure. ... Displacement theory suggests that increasing time and attention spent on other forms of media (e.g. digital media, social media) may replace reading for personal interest. Testing this was beyond the scope of our study but should be explored further in future research across countries

https://x.com/AlexAndBooks_/status/1931691064919761008

https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1903466617226346873

Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

"people are getting worse at reading, math, and reasoning, and struggling more to concentrate and learn things. This is true not only for adolescents but also for adults...people are reading less and spending more time passively consuming social media."

https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1904292752969638019

https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1897727760988065914

Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

Reading activates different parts of the mind and sticks with you in a way other forms of media don’t. If you come across an interesting fact in a tweet, a short article, or a TikTok, it might seem insightful in the moment, but odds are it’ll fade from memory within an hour. Long-form reading—books, essays, in-depth articles—works differently. You engage with the ideas more deeply, and they linger in your mind, shaping how you think. Writing does something similar. Conversations are useful, but sitting down and forcing yourself to put thoughts into words creates a different level of clarity. When I read a lot on a topic, my mind feels like a tangled mess—like a ball of yarn full of knots. Writing is how I untangle it. It forces me to slow down, lay everything out clearly, and figure out whether I actually know what I’m talking about. Wrestling ideas into logical form, distilling them into something clear and persuasive, is the best way to test them. Good writing indicates that you’ve taken the time to refine your thinking rather than just reacting