i love reading because it never looks like you’re wasting your time, avoiding exercise or housework.

[lzg@mastodon.social]

i love reading because it never looks like you’re wasting your time, avoiding exercise or housework. you’re not mindlessly watching tv or doomscrolling. you’re *reading a book*, a morally superior activity that makes you better than other people.

[hyperreal@tilde.zone]

@lzg I do feel that "I stayed home from school to read books" is morally higher than "I stayed home from school to play video games."

[dev@discuss.systems]

@lzg agreed

[lzg@mastodon.social]

what do you mean you want my help? don’t you see i’m Cultivating My Mind?!

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@lzg well, you can play an audiobook while doing____.

[lzg@mastodon.social]

@CStamp shh i’m trying to read here

[gabriel@col.social]

@lzg morally better than almost everyone

As a child, my uncle's neighbor thought that I was studying to be a priest, because I always sat down to read a thick book he had on the shelf.

It was an unpublished novel by one of his friends, so I wasn't allowed to take it with me. My only chance was to read a few pages at a time, during each visit

[riaresists@mastodon.social]

@lzg Rhis needs to be a meme