Andrew Tate Thinks He Is Too Smart to Read Books. Maybe He Just Can’t Read?
You truly need to be a special breed of ignorant to declare yourself too intelligent for literacy.
Most of us would probably stop at “too busy” or “too tired,” but Andrew Tate, never one to aim so low as the average person, has gone ahead and utilized the very concept of illiteracy — you know, the kind your grandparents warned you about — as a flex.
In a recent viral tweet on X, the social media influencer who is currently navigating more courtrooms than the number of his followers with functional critical thinking skills, announced that he doesn’t read books because his brain simply operates at too advanced a level for the medium. “I’m way too smart to read books lol,” He wrote, and then helpfully clarified that books are for “dummies.”
And what does his super-powered, genius-grade intellect require, you ask? You’re in luck, because Tate had an answer for that in a clip that had previously gone viral (per Irish Star), and it involves — you guessed it — cars, champagne, fighting, and “constant chaos.”
So much suddenly starts to make sense about Tate. The way he speaks has the kind of tight and eloquent language you expect from someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about, and his sparse prose on social media is a testament to why publishers never came knocking.
The internet, to its credit, responded with the enthusiasm it only reserves for historic moments of self-own.
“Someone needs to take this dude’s phone away,” wrote one user, and we wholeheartedly agree.
Rock, is this true?
Truly, a Bottom G moment.
This isn’t the first time Tate has gone to war with the written word. In 2022, he declared that “books are a total waste of time” and “education is for cowards,” hinting at his own insecurity when it comes to education. I mean, it’s not every day you find someone willing to call Fyodor Dostoevsky a coward.
What makes Tate’s anti-reading position genuinely fascinating is the sheer effort he puts into explaining it. A man who truly couldn’t care less about books would simply not read them — quietly, privately, without a manifesto. Instead, Tate has produced multiple videos and posts defending his stance, apparently driven to distraction by the widespread opinion that intelligent people tend to read. The lady doth protest too much, as we cowards say.
Of course, there’s no denying that reading in and of itself isn’t a measure of a person’s intelligence. In my experience, plenty of brilliant people aren’t big readers, and plenty of voracious readers are idiots. Cracking open a book doesn’t make you smart, but if you were smart to begin with, you’d know that reading a book doesn’t make you smart, but not reading a book will definitely make you look… Well, exactly like the guy who’s bragging about not reading books.
Carl Sagan, a man who genuinely was too smart for most rooms, once wrote that to read is “to voyage through time.” Andrew Tate apparently prefers to stay right where he is, which might explain why he’s a complete stranger to the concept of character growth.
Yes, seasons change, empires rise and fall, the tides shift, and the world keeps turning, but Andrew Tate will still be there, absolutely certain that he’s the most interesting thing in the room, a monument to the power of not knowing what you don’t know.
(featured image: YouTube/Jack Neel)
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