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Beside the handful of real absolute morons/racists/haters (we have similar people in the EU too, they are far from being exclusive to Britain), I consider this an impressive scam that went somewhat completely wrong.

Those promoting Brexit never intended to really leave the EU, that was a mean to grab more power by manipulating the… lesser informed population, and they were indeed quite surprised the day those people, and then a few more with them, actually voted for that Brexit scam. Making them the proud leader of something that was probably never meant to happen. Hence their absolute lack of preparation for it and the shit show that followed for years.

It’s also a demonstration of why a failing public educative system is fatal to a working democracy. Uneducated citizen can’t vote with their brains, only with their guts. And we all know that what usually comes out of guts is not ideas, right?

Something we can also witness happening in the USA, quite obviously, but also in most countries in the EU even in my dear own France. Sadly.

Maybe UK citizen have not yet realized how badly they screwed themselves with Brexit, and they need a second shot of an even sadder reality? Or maybe they’ve just given up already?

If reading is like a drug. And a drug, consumed in large quantities, produces disease. Then reading, in large quantities, produces disease.

It’s logically straightforward.

Not any more than saying ‘if cold is hot than too much hot can freeze you to death’. As long as the premise is not true (not a fact) no valid conclusion can be made out of it.

In your situation, saying “if reading is like a drug” doesn’t magically turns reading into an actual drug (the ‘if’ part is key). It still is an hypothesis that need to be demonstrated/validated.

That I understand (I can read ;)), what I don’t understand is how you manage to come to such an odd conclusion. Based on what?

A person who reads a lot might become something like a meth-head. Crippled and diseased.

Would you care to elaborate on that? Seen from the outside it sounds quite… nonsensical but I may very well be too much of a reader myself to still be able to understand too complex notions. Or maybe I’m already dead?