Question and Thought for the Day March 18, 2025
Thought of the Day: You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
Question of the Day: What is the most overrated food that you’re convinced everyone pretends to enjoy?
Ray Bradbury warned us. You donât need fire to burn booksâyou just need people to stop reading them. And looking around, it seems like weâre edging closer to that reality every day.
When was the last time you read a book? Not a quick skim of an article, not a doomscroll sessionâan actual, full-length book?
Weâre a culture that claims to love knowledge, yet weâve swapped deep reading for shallow consumption. We know everything but understand nothing. We binge-watch, we speed-scroll, and we absorb headlines without ever engaging with the nuance beneath them. Itâs not that books have disappeared. Theyâre still there, patiently waiting. But the collective act of reading? Thatâs whatâs fading.
If knowledge is power, then the easiest way to control a society is to make sure no one reads deeply enough to question things.
And speaking of questionable thingsâŠ
The Overrated Food Phenomenon
Why do we pretend to love certain foods? Seriously. There are dishes that we pretend to enjoy just to avoid admitting theyâre mediocre at best.
Kale chips? They taste like disappointment. Caviar? Salty bubbles of regret. Truffle oil? Overpriced drizzle that makes everything taste like someoneâs perfume exploded in the kitchen.
Itâs like weâve collectively agreed to play along with certain food trends just so we donât get called uncultured. But deep down, we all know the truthâsome foods are riding high on a wave of hype, and weâre all just too polite to call them out.
So letâs be honest: Whatâs the most overrated food youâre convinced everyone is just pretending to enjoy? Drop it in the comments. Letâs start a movement.
Because if we can admit we donât actually like quinoa, maybeâjust maybeâwe can also admit that reading books matters, too.