Who Cares?

On my way back from work, I saw this billboard. It seems the Cape Argus ran an article about what the president of the country reads. I made efforts to read the article but could not find the paper at some restaurant I went to afterwards, and I was not willing to buy the paper only on account of the advertisement.

I am always fascinated about why people take interest in what one reads, more especially what they are currently reading at a particular point in time. I personally do not think one can tell a lot of what one is currently reading, or has even read.

The Sunday Times once featured a profile on some successful black business personality who was reading Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and then I thought, every Tom, Dick and Harry has already read that book.

I wonder how many people would have bought that edition of the Cape Argus motivated by wanting to know what the president reads, and whether that knowledge would make one to understand why he makes certain policies etc..

If you care to know: I am reading Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, some UNISA textbooks and the May edition of Hustler magazine.

Solidarity.