The summer before entering university I devoted what seemed like hundreds of hours to reading, in its entirety, the late Tony Judt's masterpiece 'Postwar', which runs to about 900 pages with very small text.
If you put a gun to my head and asked me to name three arguments contained therein, I'd tell you to pull the trigger.
Books are better seen as yesterday's hard drive or cloud server farm yes. The Prince has his needy priest class do the trifling work of research. Today I suppose one has search engines and Wikipedia entries. Never seen many people actually read academic articles however.
I expected a shitpost but this is actually a good take. Nice observation.
The summer before entering university I devoted what seemed like hundreds of hours to reading, in its entirety, the late Tony Judt's masterpiece 'Postwar', which runs to about 900 pages with very small text.
If you put a gun to my head and asked me to name three arguments contained therein, I'd tell you to pull the trigger.
Books are better seen as yesterday's hard drive or cloud server farm yes. The Prince has his needy priest class do the trifling work of research. Today I suppose one has search engines and Wikipedia entries. Never seen many people actually read academic articles however.
The difference between performative knowledge and insight.