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It's difficult to find a good book in 2024

There hasn't been any good authors since 2012

I haven't been able to find a decent book published after 2010

Books have been anti intellectual since twilight not tick tock

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I feel the “relief read” thing. I read American Psycho last month and I followed up with a YA mystery just to calm my brain down.

Bunny is also my all time favorite book so I'll trust your opinion on books 100%, subscribed 🫶

Hah! Yeah you give off the "ayup i ended up in IB" vibe. i had the tests the year they changed a buncha stuff. It was a mess. XD

As a psychologist who loves social psychology, I appreciate that you picked the book about the language of Cultism, I have read it and liked it. If you like social psychology I would recommend "Misbelief: What makes rational people believe irrational things" by Dan Ariely, it has some interesting stuff.

Its also real goofy to say romance isnt intellectual when some of the best novels are jane austen books, which are romcom satires.

Just an added essay from someone who was interviewed in the Atlantic: cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlantic-did-me-dirty?fbclid=IwY2xjawF8oTBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcHFKWicvRpy-8x9eAxPgZFBwA6AjqNA91dM4QOEx9sG83Vy_Gx8p-2ekA_aem_axt5IIV8WAvNyBWUHz0XYg

Gen AI is computer science, not art.

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I am far from smut booktok and I mainly read books for intellectual purposes but I watched a lot of videos on this topic. I feel like those books are for entertainment and not for analysis. So not reviewing them on a deeper level is totally okay. But I feel like we have to seperate those two types of readers and encourage people who are already have a reading habit to read more intellectual books.

The good thing is, AI sucks at writing...for the time being. It's soulless and easy to spot. But human creators may have a couple more years before it becomes indistinguishable from human writing.

I went to the Ren fair in Folsom this last weekend and I met two different authors, which I love. One of them as soon as I brought this up, went on a tirade about how toxic the community was. I wholeheartedly believe him based on my own friend’s experiences. Take care!

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Enjoyed seeing more of NYC rather than the typical tourist sites. The library buildings were artistic masterpieces. So impressive!

yeah I feel this LOL

The thing is that, as you said TikTok is a fast content platform, so there is no deep analysis about things (I also, don't have TikTok but my attention span is short anyway, and that type of content makes it worse for me since I can't fully process things without being bombarded by something new. ). Books are more than tropes, but books or movies, etc. can't be explained, in the time it takes to make a TikTok, not fully. People also forget that there were, just like today, always bad romance and good romance books, the only difference is that people find out more about them than before because of platforms. Publishers haven't cared for a long time, a good example of it is a book (a biography) about how a man, deprived of their life, two children and then wrote the book in detail about it, and it became famous. And it's not only books, in fact, it can be said about a lot of things, for example; mangas, movies, TV shows, etc. My personal opinion in romance is that it's ok if you like it, but it's also ok to accept that sometimes the characters don't have the best relationship there is. Oh My God, I wrote a School paper on your TH-cam video, that's how good you are.

So, this annoys me: But you can be an intellectual without a college education and college is for getting a degree that will get you a better paying job, not to be an intellectual. Plenty of college degrees have nothing to do with intellectualism. You don't have to have spent 60k to be an intellectual or to value intellectualism, and plenty of absolutely insane public figures (see conservative politicians and social media influencers) who have degrees are vehemently anti intellectual. They aren't the same thing.

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Why was that tiny Yoda figurine shaking its head a lot and towards the end it slowed down

I'm so glad the algorithm brought me here. I really enjoyed all of your points.

There is absolutely a portion of people saying "the curtains are blue" type comments. Or trending videos saying they skip paragraphs if they're too long. Others saying some books just have too many words? There's definitely anti-intellectualism on that platform. Though i also agree that is not the best platform for deep conversations

An author friend of mine uses the term "deliteracy" to describe this problem. People can read, but they lack media literacy and an understanding of or ability to evaluate the artistic aspects of a work of literature. TikTok is merely an extreme extension of this broader systemic issue. It is much older than TikTok and seems to have been building over the last few decades, only accelerating with the internet. Even TikTok used to be less utterly moronic. People used to be able to use words to say a couple of insightful things about a book, instead of screaming and pulling faces. Book reviewers on TH-cam are also fairly deliterate, even those with English degrees who make long, pretentious videos. It's ridiculous. Goodreads as well. Every book I look up on GR, the amount of reviews that are just so... dumb. Like, maybe 5% of the people who read I Am Legend comprehended what that book was about with any nuance, and the rest of them just talked out of their asses. Didn't matter how long or short the reviews were. They think it's a Stephen King book or something. We get 3-hour podcasts and video essays of nothing but BS that claim to be "deep dives" so it's not surprising. Also, "I don't think there is a lack of good literature being put out." Artful literature of depth and great characterization, yes there is absolutely a lack of that. People don't even know what that looks like anymore and think mediocrities like Cormac McCarthy or Jonathan Franzen or Percival Everett meet that standard, whereas before you might have had truly great writers like Betty Smith. These days, I hear Betty Smith being compared to hacks like J.K. Rowling because both wrote stories about children growing up. People's level of engagement on every level is so shallow and superficial that they don't get anything of depth out of what they read, even when there is a lot to get out of it. Readers are cooked and it's not even funny. I don't care if people just want to read stuff for entertainment. It's the fact that they CAN'T go beyond that (without talking out of their ass) that I have a problem with. P.S. You're misusing the term "high concept." It does not mean intelligent literature, it means a story that can easily be boiled down and pitched in a few words.

Anti-intellectualism at this point might as well mean "I don't have the social status I think I deserve."

Your masters thesis sounds amazing haha

Notsoaveragejo said it best how the original poster misused the term of anti-intellectualism.

Love the Coulson funko pop in the background

This is a really nice video, I enjoyed it and it made me feel like you're actually thinking through things rather than picking a popular opinion. Your personality is also just fantastic. I'll have to try your books soon!

OMG! Political analysis, social analysis, literature, and booktok? Amazing! Btw, there are some serious people on TikTok, but you have to dig because they are mostly not what's popular. As a writer and someone who works in the publishing space (looking to leave though lol), I think you have really good points, especially about marketing!

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saw this randomly and im already loving your voice and takes! subbing

Like my only perception of book tok is acotar. But i agree with you on your points. Causeshounenjumpisadoucheof acompanytome. But couldnt you filter out books based on key words in the synopsis? Like, with an influx of selfpublishers and brain rot and social sensitivity, and well... maybe im talking too much. Loved your vid btw.

😊 Yeah. Ive found that these generas are hard to sort of- differenciate and make the story sound interesting. I remember seeing a post on youtube saying that using a ao3 tagging system would work better since you can get deeper into the details of the story- thus why its so easy to find something you want- so long as you know what to search for. I think its a great idea, there needs to be a certain system but it could work.

The issue people have with booktok is that these people actively REFUSE to read anything that isn't smut related or told to them to read.

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I must say I sometimes miss the middle. What kind of annoys me that with social media it doesn't matter what "type" of literature you read it's so aestheticized. If you read classics the vibes are soo gatekeepy and it romanticises academics so much that to me it kind of sucks the life out of it. And with "booktok books" I am also pretty annoyed with the amount of tropes although I do not see it as a particular new phenomenon. But to me I am still looking for my niche in social media that is somewhere in the middle. I think I am annoyed that book genres are kind of associated with cores. Dark academia with classics etc. It feels like there only exists archetypes that no real person really fits into. But that's not only a problem of booktok I guess

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