The "Reading-Hoax" - Loewe & Stern

Since time immemorial we are being told, that reading books hightens our IQ, our intelligence, our intellect.
At least that´s what liberal wokists claim. They mock everybody who hasn´t read their favourite list of left wing BS as being non-intellectual and what not and claim, that „education“ would be the solution to the „right wing“-problem.
They say „education“ but mean „indoctrination“
But truth is. Reading does nothing.
Reading can supply you with a certain amount of information.
And IF (!) you are a reflected person you can make something of the information received.
But!
And here is the surprising answer to the „education is the solution“-party.
Writing is the actual excercise you have to engage in in order to raise your own intellectual abilities.
Not Reading.
Writing.
And that claim is backed by modern neuroscience.
The ability of a human being to process thoughts and emotions properly and to actually express them coherently and meaningfully IS the No.1 sign for true intelligence. Readers can be dumb as a slice of bread although they have consumed everything from Dostojevskj to Sartre, from Plato to Macchiavelli.
Learning to write has done a lot for me.
Writing is the process of collecting emotions and/or thoughts and expressing them in language, which is a neurological far more complex process than reading is. The brain is therefore being trained in a much more sophisticated way, than by just receiving information (and maybe storing it).
Only a human being able to express thoughts and emotions properly can be regarded as „of intellect“.
Others.
Just consume.
What you write is yours.
What you read, never was.

True Intelligence WRITES but does not necessarily have to read.
Reading is just intake of information.
Nothing more.
But so can be „listening“ or „watching“.
It is what you make of it, that matters.

Learn how to write.
How to express yourself in your mother tongue,
And even if it is just journalling.
It will do a lot for you.