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[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A Brief History of Time - a fair number of people do read it but there's a pretty big chunk of people that just want bookshelf clout.

[โ€“] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I prefer the album "A Brief History of Rhyme" by MC Hawking.

[โ€“] IbnLemmy@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I was looking for this. 15 years ago this would have been top of the list.

[โ€“] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People don't read popular science books? ๐Ÿคจ๐Ÿคจ

Okay, I admit, I am deeply perplexed by everything everyone is saying in this thread. Do people seriously keep books on bookshelves not for reading, but for decoration or to pretend they're well-read? Why wouldn't they just read the books?

[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes they do just buy them for decoration. If you are intellectually curious you're in an extreme minority of people.

Which I find strange. Usually anti-intellectualism is open, up-front, and honest about what it is. People buying books and not reading them just to pretend they're smart doesn't seem like a thing that actually happens in real life, just a straw intellectual the willfully ignorant like to beat up.