Aside from literature, which I love, I have found that I have quite a fondness for owning textbooks, both physical and digital. (Reading them is a whole different story, though)
I have a textbook for Non-Classical Logic, Rock-Forming-Minerals, both of which I don’t even begin to comprehend as I lack the fundamentals, General Physics, General Maths, Zoology, Lichen, Insect Morphology (didn’t even know about that one anymore), Invertebrates excluding insects, Freshwater Biology, a bunch of species identification keys, Inductive Statistics, etc. etc.
Some of those I obviously need for university, but most are stuff I just found for free somewhere and took or downloaded with the intention of learning something.
I always have this scenario in mind of society collapsing, but it won’t be a problem for me because I have a lot of things to learn. Does anyone here have a similar “condition”? Haha
Intelligence can be a curse. I often find myself doing unpaid literary work because I am pondering things and trying to figure out the solution to weighty matters. I can see that a lot of other people have the same problem. I often need to remind myself that nobody is paying me to save the world. Most of the people who are hell bent on making the world a better place have no idea how anything even works. When you do improve your understanding of the world you live in, you had better keep it to yourself because nobody wants to hear it.