I doubt that most folks here are referring to those who didn’t bring a book or perhaps just wanted to ponder the 4 color rule for maps or whatever whilst they wait to be examined.
I know my beef is with people who do not read, who are not intellectually curious (odd that they can usually spout chapter and verse either about the latest doings in Hollywood OR Bible verses…and sometimes both!). As I mentioned, the home I visited in UK had not one book in it, until I gave them a coffee table book of Chicago. You would have thought it was an ancient artifact with magical powers, from the way they all looked AT it, but did not open it. Odd, to say the least.
The folks are work dont’ read, either–ever that I can figure out. But they look at the pics in Us or People a lot. To each his own, but why speak to me as if I were the freak of nature? Why constantly interrupt me–on my break–to query why I read so much?
It is the whole Americans don’t trust an intellectual (to our grear discredit and harm) attitude–the last thing I ever want to do is spend time with a good ole boy or gal who has no “time” to read or interest. That equates to boring, and even stupid, to my mind.
Yeah, I know about Gardiner’s 7 types of intelligence and all–I don’t say that everyone must read above all else: no one here is saying that. If I understand the premise, it is that some reading, on regular basis, helps to make one a well rounded individual, capable of grasping complex thoughts and issues of the day.