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Took me 6 weeks to finish one chapter of that debate book
Our book club picked a dense philosophy book about moral relativism and I spent 6 weeks just trying to get through the first chapter because every paragraph sent me down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles. Has anyone else had a book take way longer than expected because you kept stopping to look things up?
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tyler_bell2mo ago
Keep making that mistake myself. Used to think I could just skim through the dense stuff, get the main idea. This book changed that completely. Every page had some reference I had to look up, some philosopher I'd never heard of. Realized I was missing half the argument by not digging deeper. Now I just accept that good books take time. No shame in it.
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hart.cora2mo ago
Did you say that book was about moral relativism? That sounds more like a specific philosophical concept, but the post says "debate book" which could mean anything from a formal debate manual to a Socratic dialogue. I'm just wondering if maybe you mixed up the title or topic since "debate book" is pretty broad compared to moral relativism.
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gray61mo ago
every page had some reference i had to look up" yeah that's the exact thing. i notice this pattern everywhere now not just books. like people will argue about politics or whatever and they're using words they heard on youtube but don't actually understand the history behind them. it's like everyone's just skimming the surface of everything. i caught myself doing it with a documentary last week, nodding along then realized i couldn't explain what they meant by "postmodernism" if my life depended on it. makes you wonder how much of what we think we know is just borrowed opinions.
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