#WHAT IS MY AO3 MARK FOR LATER IF NOT TSUNDOKU BY ANOTHER NAME

[grandwretch]

im sorry but you cannot attribute every single human behavior to capitalism. yes capitalism has shaped literature for the worst. yes the bookish world would probably be a better place without goodreads or booktok.

however the concepts of bibliomania and tsundoku were created in the 1800s, well before there were thousands of ads for shiny covers and celebrity authors being flung into your face. people were already buying more books than they could ever possibly read when books were still made with manual typesetting. you can't blame this one on amazon.

that's not even touching the fact that bibliomania is sometimes a symptom of ocd, or the existence of hyperlexia.

sometimes, people just like to do something, and it makes them act irrationally. and, yes, capitalism corrupts that. but to pretend that all human excess is because of capitalism is simply erroneous. you need to stop pretending that eradicating capitalism will make us perfect creatures free from hedonism oh my fucking god

#shut up az #in fact under communism i plan to read and hoard even more books #for you see i am one of those aforementioned hyperlexics #there's a goblin in my brain that tells me to read and then points an anxiety gun at my head #gonna venture that goodreads didnt put him there #sorry the original post about judging others by how much they Consume was correct #but so many people in the notes took it to mean that all book hoarding and reading fast is inherently because of capitalism #as if this is not the website where people read millions of words a week that were posted and obtained For Free #WHAT IS MY AO3 MARK FOR LATER IF NOT TSUNDOKU BY ANOTHER NAME #never talk to me and my collection of vintage paperbacks ever again