Why I DEPISE Reading

Your whole life has been in a cage. You keep seeing “shadows” of people and animals.

One day, humans outside dug into your cave and freed you from this cage. You saw different two-legged and four-legged “things” walking around. You didn’t know what they are and how they function.

This is “The Cave” story from Plato. Your knowledge is confined to your experience and there is no way you can go beyond that.

You will never understand what it is like to be a grass-root class until you actually become one. You can listen to a million stories about the people in North Korea and veterans who fought in the Second World War. But you will never actually “comprehend” what they experienced and felt until you actually felt it YOURSELF.

It is just like the Knowledge Argument proposed by Frank Jackson where a “normal” person will never be able to explain the color “yellow” to a color-blind person. You might argue that it is the inadequacies of our verbal language (Ludwig Wittgenstein) that resorted to this inefficiency in communication. However, at least to what we know as of right now, human language can’t convey knowledge that the other person has not remotely experienced before.

This is why I despise books. People often say “5 books you must read” to hop onto the bandwagon, but they never give caveats about the prior…