rating books is destroying our brains
00:00 intro 00:37 consensus 03:17 anxiety 04:37 identity 06:10 action for action's sake 07:00 heart the lover 07:51 newspeak 08:39 banality of evil 09:21 anarchy? 10:53 trust yourself 12:00 final thoughts Books referenced: How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco Heart the Lover by Lily King ok but hear me out... lmao I read How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco and now I can't stop seeing star rating books in the booktube community as a fascistic practice. this video is about how star ratings drive consensus, suppress difference, flatten your reading experience into a number, and might be ruining what books even get written. the antidote? anarchy. read the bad book.
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