Do people actually read Nietzsche or do they just quote him so that they appear smart?
Look, I love ramblings of insane people as much as the next guy but just because some dude from the past said something doesn’t make it correct.
Same thing with George Orwell. I legit never met anybody who read 1984. They claim that they have, but I know better. The libertarian types love bringing up Orwell, but I guess they forgot that while Orwell’s politics sound, to me, a bit nuanced, he was pretty solidly a leftist.
Maybe I just refuse to believe that anyone from the past has a greater insight into our present than we do today. It just doesn’t make sense. Bring Isaac Newton to the present and I guarantee that you could crush his ass in a game of Trivial Pursuit.
What are some other authors that stupid people claim to read (but actually didn’t)?
*cough*Christopher Lasch
*sneeze* Richard Dawkins
*fart* Christopher Hitchens
The Internet Ruined Everything 
I’ve actually read ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’, as well as several articles by Hitchens.
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Ooooooooo! Smarty McFarty here!
No jk. Just being facetious here. I’ve maybe read 10 pages of Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’ and haven’t read him since. Some books have been so hyped that they can’t possibly meet my high expectations of them
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