Slop.

Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
loosin' all their chains now!
Labor Power!

They're the world's most value producing thing! (We're really hip!)
They're workers in the factory and they're mean! (Hey - get a grip!)
When their boss cracks the whip
These laborers try to give'm the slip!

Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
Marx taught them the philosophy (He's a radical rat!)
Lenin reads, and then he does the thing! (That's a fact, jack!)
Stalin had a big spoon, (Gimmie a break!)
Mao Zedong was a party dude (Party!)

Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
loosin' all their chains now!
Labor Power!

I reckon that you're right about the education system being at fault, but if you're going to be "reading" a summary made by the pollution-bot, then you might as well just watch a youtube-video on the subject instead. At the very least you can use the comment section on youtube to ask questions about the subject matter (and get told that whatever issue you're having is a bolshevik plot made by the Talmudic Demons)

I was going to say it's like "gamifying" books, but the attitude is even older than that. It reminds me of people who will pick what games to play based purely on reviews, like their optimizing their Aggregated IGN Score Experiential Index.

I had to try to stop myself from doing that, because I would end up forcing myself to finish every single book I picked up, setting page count goals for the day, and not re-reading books because it cut into my goodreads goal for the year. When really... you should just read what you feel like, and for it's own sake, and not really worry too much about intentionality.

Absolutely true

Yeah, I think this is right to some extent. For the vast majority of people, you're not reading Aristotle for the content (at least not in the sense that's well-captured by a summary). That is, we don't generally read Aristotle because he was right about a bunch of things. The value is in following the chain of reasoning and seeing how it gave rise to many, many of the questions we're still grappling with today. Reading a summary is basically useless, because if you've grown up anywhere in , you've already absorbed Aristotle at that level. It's part of the structure of Angloid thought at a deep level.

I'm exactly the age where teachers caught on to spark notes and all my highschool teachers at least had one spark notes book to show the class that they're checking your wording or whatever for plagiarism. I wonder how many were just the same ones passed between teachers the first week

AmeriKKKans, as soon as TikTok is banned

i can see a use for this but ive heard some of those "podcast" summary things people make and damn are they ridiculously reductive in a way that actually misrepresents what they are summarizing