otherwise don't know how I'm ever going to get through all the readings I want to get to. esp the drier philosophical or political stuff. or drier history.
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in reply to @lunemercove's post:
I don't feel compelled to be well read for some nebulous idea of being well read. I feel compelled to read widely because:
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I have very strong "I believe the last thing someone convincingly told me" disease. I think twitter made it worse but it's always been with me. and it turns out sometimes when someone convincingly tells you something they're wrong, or misled, or things are more complicated, or there's really a better lens / philosophical grounding / framework to think things through than they're offering. or or or or.
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I don't feel like I know my own beliefs well enough to argue them to myself or others. and I really feel like I have to be able to do that - it feels to me a critical component of knowing who I am and what I'm about. do I have to be absolutely certain of any given thing I say or argue? no. do I need to complete this work and be done with it? absolutely not. can it be a lifelong project? it has to be. do I have to start this work and actively work on it, in a general sense if not in a literal every-moment sense? absolutely.
the only things I find help me on 2) are long thinking about it (frequently aided by weed), and gathering more data from learning more about the world and the ways people think and have thought about it. dunno what I'm gonna do about my free time / motivation issues in the absence of that hyperbolic time chamber, though.