This is because you are being closed minded. Guess what, most books are crap but there are great ones out there. Just like any other media you have to go out an

This is because you are being closed minded. Guess what, most books are crap but there are great ones out there. Just like any other media you have to go out and look for them and the ones being fed to you are crap. They represent many thousands of years of collected intelligence and wisdom many written by the intellect that created the ideas underlying today's society. Check out Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin or Relativity by Albert Einstein.