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Another editor's note: Literacy is just your ability to use a tool fluidly. Whenever there is a human skill, there is literacy: data literacy, social literacy, ecological literacy. I consistently find my generation (Gen-Z) to be high in media literacy and low on aural and written literacy. This essay focuses on literacy within the written word with this in mind. Take a breath.
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The reason you hate reading is because the ruling class benefits from illiteracy. Not total illiteracy, mind you. That's bad for business. The ruling class (law and policy makers, oligarch businessmen, celebrity, hedge fund managers buying up single family housing, etc.) want you illiterate enough to be able to work for them, but not so literate that you realize how badly the working class gets fucked over in this world-making. Read enough to be able to consume and to execute, not to consider critically, certainly not enough to create. Because then what? A mass of people realizing we can create and recreate everything we see and touch to something kinder for us?
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(1) the ruling class benefits from illiteracy.
(2) short-form video entertains more than it sticks.
(3) reading is a discipline distinct from listening, watching, or other forms of literacy. It's a skill that needs to be honed separately.
(4) Absolutely no one comes to save us but us.
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