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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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this is only tangentially related but a hexbear posting warrior told some lemmyverse liberal they should really read some books about the subject being discussed and suggested some specific books, the lemmyverse liberal got very mad and said basically 'fuck you, YOU should read a book", so I asked them what book they felt would be good and they recommended fucking "Ulysses" by Joyce.
Ever since noticing that their version of history is completely vibes based, stuff like this doesn't shock me at all anymore. OBVIOUSLY, the best way to understand the modern world is to read some lofty Irish musings that parallel ancient Greek poetry. The thing is, they probably didn't even read it for literatures sake. They read it for the status of having said "I've read Ulysses
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I kind of suspect they hadn't even read it, they just googled "best classic literature list" and picked the book at the top so they could sound well read and smart