You're an old soul...perhaps even born in the wrong generation. It is about the numbers everywhere and for everything.
Some kids your age who upload between 300-500 short videos per year consider anything less than a mil in followers or a few mil in likes a failure and are annoyed by the lack of engagement.
A privilege...what's that they say. lol
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Books like that feed the brain more general info and a great perspective, but why else should we read it?
What did you learn from it besides a newfound appreciation for the old world that you could share?