Let's face it: public "literacy" is a disaster. It encourages inferior (~100-125 IQ) minds to engage with intellectual topics and even legitimizes their delusional intellectual aspirations. Such people can't actually think but they can pick up on rhetorical patterns they don't understand and extrapolate from them in nonsensical ways. It would've been simply annoying if it didn't end up distorting their perception of reality - something they can't even reflect on. The end result is a big chunk of the population becoming functionally insane. And there's no known remedy for this.
>>18538211>Let's face it: public "literacy" is a disaster. It encourages inferior (~100-125 IQ) minds to engage with intellectual topics and even legitimizes their delusional intellectual aspirations.OP BTFOing xerself.
>>18538219>the most predictable low-iq seething possible
>>18538211Actually the problem is intellectuals themselves. Always has been.
>>18538291Show us where the intellectuals touched you, Billy.
>>18538292>t.
Yet the period when printed books and pamphlets became popular and literacy rates soared was also exactly the period when global economic and technological development took off and life expectancy, having been low and stable everywhere in the world for thousands of years, nearly doubled in just a few centuries.Yeah, there are a lot of retards out there, but for every 100,000 people who only read smut or gossip there's 1 medical researcher or inventor who uses the knowledge contained in texts to improve living standards for 10,000,000 people. So the bottom line is still firmly in the black.
>>18538477>the period when printed books and pamphlets became popular and literacy rates soared was also exactly the period when global economic and technological development took off>implying that's a good thing
>>18538211This is fascism
>guys like I am like so based with (exceptionally contrarian retard statement)ten years from now you will be taking a shower, remember you used to post shit like this and want to kill yourself for being such a cringey fag>no bro like this is ironicthat still applies
>>18538211I've been thinking for a while this is a fundamental problem with modern democracies. The average citizen who spends most of his life being a miserable wagie with barely any free time is somehow supposed to care about all these political and social issues and expected to be able to determine the best course of action for the good of his country. What kind of level of delusion is this? The only possible outcome is either induced apathy or mental illness.
compulsory mass education exists to teach people to read JUST well enough to consume the propaganda if they couldn't read, the propaganda would be less effectiveit is that simple
>>18538534What I'm saying is true. I understood it ten years ago and I'll understand it just as well 10 years from now. Exposure to brainlets like you and their mindless reactions isn't doing much to change my mind.
>>18538696>compulsory mass education exists to teach people to read JUST well enough to consume the propagandaTrue, but what am I supposed to take out from this? That they just need to be taught how to read better?
