James Marriott
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
Columnist at The Times
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We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
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As an Eastern European "frosty," I'm rarely rattled.
However, after reading @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social article, "The dawn of the post-literate society and the end of civilisation," I definitely was...
Check out our CONVO here 👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
However, after reading @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social article, "The dawn of the post-literate society and the end of civilisation," I definitely was...
Check out our CONVO here 👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
As an Eastern European "frosty," I'm rarely rattled.
However, after reading @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social article, "The dawn of the post-literate society and the end of civilisation," I definitely was...
Check out our CONVO here 👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
However, after reading @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social article, "The dawn of the post-literate society and the end of civilisation," I definitely was...
Check out our CONVO here 👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
I really enjoyed this conversation about the decline of reading and the threat addictive digital devices pose to our civilisation
We have stopped READING - could it be a sign our civilisation is COLLAPSING?
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social certainly seems to think so. Check out our conversation HERE👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social certainly seems to think so. Check out our conversation HERE👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I really enjoyed this conversation about the decline of reading and the threat addictive digital devices pose to our civilisation
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We have stopped READING - could it be a sign our civilisation is COLLAPSING?
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social certainly seems to think so. Check out our conversation HERE👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social certainly seems to think so. Check out our conversation HERE👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We have stopped READING - could it be a sign our civilisation is COLLAPSING?
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social certainly seems to think so. Check out our conversation HERE👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social certainly seems to think so. Check out our conversation HERE👇🏻
youtu.be/OpHIPKUWqOw
I really enjoyed talking to Novara Media about why the post-literate society is an unfolding political catastrophe and why we need the mainstream media
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4Y...
Modern Society Is Becoming Illiterate
YouTube video by Novara Media
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October 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I really enjoyed talking to Novara Media about why the post-literate society is an unfolding political catastrophe and why we need the mainstream media
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4Y...
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Here's the stamp on the back!
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Here's the stamp on the back!
For all the pessimism around at the moment, in the context of history we are living in an unimaginable golden age. Many of the problems of the C21st are the unprecedented problems of success - ironically, that is what makes them so difficult to solve
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Beware the novel problems of our success
True, we have never had it so good but no previous human society has had to face the challenges of such achievement
www.thetimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
For all the pessimism around at the moment, in the context of history we are living in an unimaginable golden age. Many of the problems of the C21st are the unprecedented problems of success - ironically, that is what makes them so difficult to solve
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Finally read this superb piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Finally read this superb piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
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Amazing essay by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it.
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Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Amazing essay by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression
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A hugely important article by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on how an astonishing decline in reading books, brought about by the smartphone, is fuelling authoritarianism and threatens the greatest setback for civilisation since the fall of the Roman Empire.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A hugely important article by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on how an astonishing decline in reading books, brought about by the smartphone, is fuelling authoritarianism and threatens the greatest setback for civilisation since the fall of the Roman Empire.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
An absolutely fascinating conversation about "how to read a painting" with the brilliant Bendor Grosvenor
The great James Marriott and I discussed how to look at pictures, and had a go at deciphering Holbein’s Ambassadors.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
An absolutely fascinating conversation about "how to read a painting" with the brilliant Bendor Grosvenor
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The great James Marriott and I discussed how to look at pictures, and had a go at deciphering Holbein’s Ambassadors.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
September 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The great James Marriott and I discussed how to look at pictures, and had a go at deciphering Holbein’s Ambassadors.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
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The big tech companies are reversing the intellectual and political gains of the Enlightenment and returning us to a New Dark Ages of ignorance, rage and superstition - it's the most important story of our time
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
September 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The big tech companies are reversing the intellectual and political gains of the Enlightenment and returning us to a New Dark Ages of ignorance, rage and superstition - it's the most important story of our time
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The big tech companies are reversing the intellectual and political gains of the Enlightenment and returning us to a New Dark Ages of ignorance, rage and superstition - it's the most important story of our time
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
September 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The big tech companies are reversing the intellectual and political gains of the Enlightenment and returning us to a New Dark Ages of ignorance, rage and superstition - it's the most important story of our time
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
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My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
In the eighteenth century the rise of literacy precipitated the greatest transfer of knowledge into the hands of ordinary men and women in history and helped to destroy the old feudal order in Europe.
As literacy recedes a neo-feudal future looms.
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As literacy recedes a neo-feudal future looms.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In the eighteenth century the rise of literacy precipitated the greatest transfer of knowledge into the hands of ordinary men and women in history and helped to destroy the old feudal order in Europe.
As literacy recedes a neo-feudal future looms.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As literacy recedes a neo-feudal future looms.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
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Great @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social piece that neatly counters the usual push back that, as this echoes past changes in communication things will be fine. Print *did* change society and how we think - so did TV, I think, fwiw - so just waving concerns away re smartphones + social media is foolish.
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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September 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Great @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social piece that neatly counters the usual push back that, as this echoes past changes in communication things will be fine. Print *did* change society and how we think - so did TV, I think, fwiw - so just waving concerns away re smartphones + social media is foolish.
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Good piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on the violent nihilists of America
www.thetimes.com/article/2d27...
www.thetimes.com/article/2d27...
This age of extreme nihilism threatens us all
Charlie Kirk gunman appears to have roots in foetid online communities where users can’t cope with their atomised lives
www.thetimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Good piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on the violent nihilists of America
www.thetimes.com/article/2d27...
www.thetimes.com/article/2d27...
I wrote this about the most boring and destructive trend of our time: the politicisation of everything.
We are becoming incapable of seeing anything - art, TV, adverts, brands, food - through anything other than a political lens. There is more to life!
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
We are becoming incapable of seeing anything - art, TV, adverts, brands, food - through anything other than a political lens. There is more to life!
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Is there nowhere to hide from politics now?
Polarised campaigns in public life extend from zebra crossings to dog food and they’re fuelling dangerous radicalism
www.thetimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I wrote this about the most boring and destructive trend of our time: the politicisation of everything.
We are becoming incapable of seeing anything - art, TV, adverts, brands, food - through anything other than a political lens. There is more to life!
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
We are becoming incapable of seeing anything - art, TV, adverts, brands, food - through anything other than a political lens. There is more to life!
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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This is very good by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
Is there nowhere to hide from politics now?
Polarised campaigns in public life extend from zebra crossings to dog food and they’re fuelling dangerous radicalism
www.thetimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is very good by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
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💊 Optimisme permanent rime souvent avec engourdissement, estime le chroniqueur James Marriott du “Times”, de Londres.
Et si vous embrassiez enfin le pouvoir de la pensée négative ?
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August 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💊 Optimisme permanent rime souvent avec engourdissement, estime le chroniqueur James Marriott du “Times”, de Londres.