[C19fan]

Says something about the age we live in when reading Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dickens is considered subversive.

[napscoordinator]

I couldn’t stand reading them. Obviously I have no idea of the upgrades. But reading a modern book might be interesting.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This English Historian agrees with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UquZosu3ebY

(History Debunked channel on YouTube)

He has lots of politically incorrect videos, has a wry sense of humor, and plenty of real experience and so he speaks from authority.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I can still remember memorizing the first few stanzas of Beowulf in the Old English and also parts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

I loved all of that material especially the Faerie Queen.

Exposing kids and young adults to that material opens up their imagination. Drowning kids and adults in woke nonsense is just going to stifle creativity, which I imagine is the overall plan. The AI will be allowed to be creative, while we humans will be shuffled off into meaningless paper-pushing jobs until our declining fertility rate guarantees our ultimate demise.

[seowulf]

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne.