The whole reason for reading a book (if you are not a monk) is to help other people understand the core idea with less effort than it took you. Lording an esoteric reading list over people is cringe, gnostic, pedantic idiocy. 2/

What’s obvious is that the pedant doesn’t care what you have read, less what you understand. They are just trolling for vulnerabilities. That’s why they glom on to the most esoteric work of an author as the “most essential” even if they have a hard time explaining why. 3/

I’ve literally had pedants do the “lol he hasn’t even read X” when there is literally an audiobook of me reading X up on my channel. But of course, have I read X “well enough” for this not be a “lie”? The goalposts always shift. 4/

In reality, No one can read everything, and you lose recollection. Unless you dedicate your life to old books, there is going to come a time when you are 10 years away from reading Aristotle. Works for pedants who use mistakes to claim you r “lying” that you’ve read something 5/

As an example, let’s take a book I known everyone has read(is forced to read in HS) “Catcher in the Rye”. Now, without looking, tell me what the name is of Holden Caufield’s prominent little sister.

It’s “Phoebe”, but if you didn’t know that then you are a “liar!” 6/

I really wish YouTubers could get over this shit. The problem is that since most people are educated in the modern university system, they have been taught to think going full spectrum on academic minutiae is more important than actually understanding a concept. It’s sad. 7/7