On: You are what you read, even if you don't always re...

[bugbuddy]

What about people that don’t read at all? Are they nothing?

[rramadass → bugbuddy]

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them." - Mark Twain

[Boogie_Man → bugbuddy]

They're illiterate, which is a tragedy.

[komali2 → Boogie_Man]

Unless they grew up in a culture of oral history, in which case they may know a great many things.

[0xDEADFED5 → komali2]

i don't mean to alarm you, but i think you're failing the literacy test

[forgotpwd16 → 0xDEADFED5]

Although the common definition of illiterate is unable to read and write, at least one dictionary also defines it (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/illiterate) also being used as having very little or no education or/and showing lack of culture.

[tombert → bugbuddy]

I suppose we could abstract this to "you are your experiences, even if you don't always remember them."

[mondobe → bugbuddy]

The anecdote at the end of the post expands it to what we hear/learn in general.