Reading most books is a waste of time. The same for youtube videos. The number of people who have good, original ideas is vastly smaller than the number of people who want to live off of producing content.
Bingo.....It's almost always a rehash of something old and just trying to make money.....
I can't stand the ONE WORD titles in bookstores.
They all copy each other.....It's nauseating.....Everything is a SCAM.
Outliers
Noise
Nudge
Influence
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It's possible to make a call that something will never be worth reading, but another way to look at it is it's just not worth reading right now. You may come back to it when you have a different interest or understanding about something. As others have said, I feel is a good idea to trying reading a lot of different things but put them down when they are no longer resonating. Don't feel any completionist pressure.
Read this morning as part of my great books seminar, from Book VIII of Plato's Republic--Socrates describing the democratic character:
And he [the democratic character] doesn't admit any word of truth into the guardhouse ,for if someone tells him that some pleasures belong to fine and good desires and others to evil ones and that he must pursue and value the former and restrain and enslave the latter, he denies all this and declares that all pleasures are equal and must be valued equally . . . .
And so he lives on, yielding day by day to the desire at hand. Sometimes he drinks heavily while listening to the flute; at other times, he drinks only water and is on a diet; sometimes he goes in for physical training; at other times, he's idle and neglects everything; and sometimes he even occupies himself with what he takes to be philosophy. He often engages in politics, leaping up from his seat and saying and doing whatever comes into his mind. If he happens to admire soldiers, he's carried in that direction, if money-makers, in that one. There's neither order nor necessity in his life, but he calls it pleasant, free, and blessedly happy, and he follows it for as long as he lives.
You've perfectly described the life of a man who believes in legal equality.