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8 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
You guys know guy don’t have to read books cover to cover right ?
I swear to God you will end up reading substantially more (and ironically finishing more books), if you stop caring about finishing books lol
For research, schoolwork, specialties, and so on, i mean, you should suck it up and read it cover to cover, but for general stuff you don’t need to worry
And with the exception of library books, special sentimental or collector books. Or books you borrow or intend to lend, stop treating them as sacred. It’s okay to ‘destroy’ a book in the process of reading it
My use of ‘destroy’ is somewhat ironic—used book sellers will mark down a title 90% if some professor wrote 3 notes in it in the margins

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It’s interesting how an entire camp of philosophers always split people between those who think they’re elitist & reactionary. And those that think they’re radical, going all the way back to Plato & Aristotle.
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Guattari died before Deleuze, that doesn’t make any sense, the second name is always supposed to live longer that’s just how it works
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Russell died after both Whitehead AND Wittgenstein, that’s how you know he’s the lesser mind
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The same people who argue today that trans rights protections will undercut women’s rights protections (what they call ‘sex based’ rights) would 50-100 years ago have argued women’s rights should be opposed because they conflict with labor rights
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If we use the standard of ancient Athens as a model for democracy, then the UAE, is literally one of the most democratic countries in the world.
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