I find so called book read to be boring to talk to. I personally get along with people who watch youtube, discuss in forums, chatrooms, and read wikipedia and

I find so called book read to be boring to talk to. I personally get along with people who watch youtube, discuss in forums, chatrooms, and read wikipedia and similar sources. The best discussions I had where in Discord and 4chan. Some people are extreme there but at least there is an honest curiosity when you discuss. And openness to reach a conclusion or to convince the opposing side of what is wrong. The book readers are kinda parrots who will go on rants about the perspective of some authors, then they will tell you the author is great and give you fun facts about him (he is the first to do this, and he did this and this, and was respected by the high school of something in paris). Also you are (and I am not) in a position to classify people to being critical thinkers or not, being a critical thinker seem to be often than not agreeing with you, or disagreeing with the crown. Hard to argue for what's critical thinking *based on conclusion*. I personally consider flat earthers to be more of a critical thinker that the average person, they have a drive to seek truth, they base that journey on theory and experience. I will be honest the average person has little ways to know that he lives on a sphere, if we exclude the obvious clue that is "why would anyone benefit from lying to us that we live in a sphere", you can't just easily do an experiment that can just prove beyond reason scientifically that we live on a sphere. HN is one of the smuggest communities who think the are the intelligentsia of the world, "excuse me guys we the book reader tribe are smart!!!!!!".