>Americans, once members of a proudly literate society, read much less than they used to. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, which conducts the most comprehensive survey of the nation’s reading habits, fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022. Only 38 percent read a novel or short story. A study analyzing 236,000 responses to the American Time Use Survey found that the proportion of Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023. (The study looked at people who had read a book, magazine, or newspaper; listened to an audiobook; or read an e-book.) Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57 percent of Americans placed a bet.>The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender, and education levels. Even the demographics that traditionally read the most—retirees, women, and college graduates—have seen a collapse.>The books that people do read are simpler than they used to be. New York Times best sellers today have sentences that are about one-third shorter than they were a century ago. Longer sentences aren’t inherently better. But their former ubiquity suggests an age when Americans had the inclination and ability to read serious works of literature. In 1958, the English translation of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago was the best-selling novel of the year, according to Publishers Weekly. Pasternak writes in long, complex sentences: “On that warm gray morning in the mountains, Zhivago felt sorry for the Tsar, was disturbed at the thought that such diffident reserve and shyness could be the essential characteristics of an oppressor, that a man so weak could imprison, hang, or pardon.”>Last year’s top-selling novel was Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest in the Hunger Games young-adult series.https://archive.ph/hPgMM
This is why the West deserves to be ruled by fascists and autocrats. Maybe a few decades under the boot will cure them of their decadent flaws.
>>25391599Or you could just let people enjoy things, Ivan
>>25391603The sheep are being led by wolves not shepherds.Imagine how much damage has been done by YouTube shorts
It makes me very sad. I have a nephew that I want to teach to read but he does not care about me and prefers to scroll on tiktok. I abhor that behavior. I cannot do anything because when I try to get him to put his phone down he makes a scandal and my family gets mad at me
>>25391693Buy him a paperback of Fowels The Collecotor along with the Die For Me biography of Leonard Lake.
I knew I was superior to all those sex havers!
I'm not sure that I'm the most perceptive reader but at least I do read and try to broaden my horizons by reading older and more diverse works.
>>25391697This fr tho.Children should know the story of Clegg using MirandS love of animals to abduct her even though she is so smartAnd the real life proof that people are that awful and will do it to each other
>>25391599state mandated reading?
There just needs to be a new Harry Potter that gets young people into reading and makes it "cool" again.
>>25391561I don't care what you circumcised cucks do.
>>25391561Its over.
>>25391705kek are you me
>>25391599The decline of reading and the increase of anti intellectualism is the greater goal of the trump administration and the heritage foundation. The oligarch that funded trump want to create a technofeadulist state where citizens are mindless cattle in a open prison panopticon. Palantir is part of that plan. Everything is going according to their plan unless you stop them and teach others. Watch the impossible dream by don quixote and keep uo the good fight.
Long past the point of caring on this one.
>>25392163The average American deserves to suffer. They are fat, stupid, incurious, callous to the suffering of others, and unwilling to sacrifice for the greater good. More than that, they actively inflict their bullshit on the rest of the world.I've always said America deserves Trump.
>>25392001It never even began.
>>25391561How does that impact me or any /lit/ user
>>25391561>Royal forces ransacked every ship that arrived at Alexandria, searching for scrollsis not this a myth?
>>25392296Less lit around, less people who use it.
>completely exclude white men and men in general from being able to become writers or readers to chase the money train of fat white women with blue hair who only read young adult fiction and romantasy slop>industry dies*leans into mic"go woke go broke"
As a fan of gatekeeping I welcome this development. Other forms of media were ruined after getting swarmed by the unwashed masses but there's a bright future for literature.
>>25391561>survey of the nation’s reading habits, fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022Fake and gay.
>>25392320I don't share your optimism. The 20% of people who read actively according to the author of the article I suspect to be mainly composed of Romantasy/LitRPG super fans.
>>25391561>The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender, and education levels. Even the demographics that traditionally read the most—retirees, women, and college graduates—have seen a collapse.Also fake and gay.>Last year’s top-selling novel was Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest in the Hunger Games young-adult series.Yes, behead all old minority men. They are tanking the stats.
>>25391599This. Modern democracy has totally refuted itself.
>>25391561>[woman name] [jew name]this garbage isn't worth reading, not even through an archive link.
>>25391561It's hard to feel sympathetic towards this person with their 90+ paragraphs of smug, millennial theater kid writing, especially since you know the books they want kids to read are all about nigger trannies fingerbanging each other.
>>25391971The problem are not the kids (see the fact that Hunger Games novel being the most sold one), it's the adults who don't read.BookTok reads, /lit/ doesn't. Simple as.
>>25392313not few enough, evidently.
>>25392175/fit/+/lit/ chud uprising when?
>>25392388>BookTok readsThey read garbage, though.>>25392400/fit/izens aren't fit enough for an uprising.
>>25392465>They read garbage, though.>We don't read anything and this is why we are better than 13 years old iPad kids who read YA for fun
>>25391561I'm reading more than ever. The solution was cutting out random TV watching, social media doomscrolling, and that's it. Hours worth of reading time.
Wumao thread.
>>25392511It is a shame that everybody is doing the opposite
>>25392511Its been a day since I read the linked article so I must barely recall it, but doesnt the article make the point that people say they dont have time to read but that its actually they do have time but they fill it with frictionless consumption due to daily cognitive fatigue?Advertisements drain the mind
>'But the people devoted to text, who derive cultural understanding and intellectual connection from the written word, are now part of a subculture. The fact that you are reading this Eritrean gundam building forum almost certainly makes you a member of it.It was a fun coastal cretin article but it's hard to take seriously when it starts with a eulogy for the library of Alexandria and then starts quoting philosophers from NYU who are afraid Americans are going to "lose the ability to form their own views and interrogate them accordingly" my brother in amitabha when exactly were Americans doing that? Give me a specific time Americans weren't being led by the nose by monied interests and the state because I can't think of any. Shay's rebellion, maybe?
>>25391561Yet, at the same time, more people are writing books now than in any other time in recorded history. 3.5 million self-published books are released each year and roughly 650k books are released through traditional publishing houses. Bowker (ISBN registrar) says that 11k books are released each day. Of course, it's nearly impossible to measure the actual numbers and it fluctuates each year. The NYT best seller list is mostly young women, writing fantasy romance books that are sold to other young women. Journalists rarely want to discuss this aspect of modern lit in these kinds of bullshit articles.
>>25391971Harry Potter uses black magic, or what we nowadays call dark psychology and NLP, to get children addicted.Mind that when examined, Harry Potter did not get children to read more books... it got them to read Harry Potter books over and over.Words can be addictive and the Harry Potter books are written frictionlessly with all the magical surprises to keep a child entrained entranced and amused in the distracted lacanian sense of the word
>>25391561Things have changed so much. I remember a speech from somebody who once said>father was a coal miner who dropped out of school in second grade to work>never learned how to read>one day after a 16-hour shift, his dad came home filthy with coal and saw the kid reading Robinson Crusoe>asks him to read some of it for him>becomes a daily ritual, the kid reading the book to his father after work>finally the book comes to an end>his dad says "that was one hell of a good story">"keep reading"
Finally! Good riddance!
>>25392696>daily cognitive fatigue?what cognitive activity are they doing instead of reading that is so fatiguing? >Advertisements drain the mindthe less social media and tv consumed = fewer ads.
>>25392722Might as well ask the same question about any nationality.
>>25392726>Yet, at the same time, more people are writing books nowSurely they are AI slop
>>25392740And that child was Adolf Hitler.
>>25392378>especially since you know the books they want kids to read are all about nigger trannies fingerbanging each other.I suggest actually reading the article so that you don't make embarrassing mistakes like this, and re-evaluating the beliefs that led you to make this prediction.The children's books the author mentions positively were all written before 1950.
>>25392776No, he ended up being a dean at some college. I really wish someone had recorded this speech though, it was incredible. Another highlight was >either you go to school or you shovel shit in Texas
>>25392845And it wasn't condescending at all, coming from this man who'd spent his childhood in grinding poverty.
>>25391561>Short anomaly in human historyWhat a bizarre claim. Literacy has been a cornerstone of human civilization for hundreds of years (thousands if we allow for it to count when only the religious or elite classes read/wrote). Reading has been around longer than organized sports (ie: leagues/organizations), industrialization, modern democracy, and public education. I feel like the author of this article would be unlikely to call any of those 'a short anomaly in human history'.
>>25392845Now you shovel shit either way. We've come so far.
>>25392735>when a severely mentally disabled person attempts to describe the concept of a pageturner
>>25392894They're referring to mass literacy. Obviously reading itself existed, but a minority of people were literate until relatively recently.
>>25392935A lot of society in general seems to be making a gradual backwards slide into Feudalism, and that’s honestly part of it.Still, I don’t understand how someone ha able to function in modern society without using basic literacy. Even using this website (or any other website online) requires a basic level of literacy.
>>25392990you'd be surprised how many niggers and cletus's have developed the bare minimum reading abilities and heuristics to get about day by day
>>25392175Leave your house and you'll notice that the average person isn't actually that bad, and that they're certainly not deserving of slavery. Get your head out of your ass, man. Get a fucking grip.
>>25392990>A lot of society in general seems to be making a gradual backwards slide into FeudalismGood.
>>25391561Reading social media posts and news articles is still reading, I bet the average American reads a bunch of books every year if you take that into account
>>25392163You think this is new to Trump? This shit has been going on for over a century, from "both" political parties
>>25391561They've been saying this for decades, since radio and TV were the boogie men. And before that you actually had very large segments of the population that were barely literate, child labor, no compulsory education, etc.I think it's more fair to argue that what is novel here is that:A. Elite culture is becoming less literate and more lowbrow than ever.B. Elite and even the broader middle management class culture has almost wholly abandoned the classics as a means of formative education in virtue. Yes, kids might still read Shakespeare or Sophocles, but they aren't being formed in a culture where the Greeks, or figures like Augustine or Cicero still represent moral authorities. There are no more moral authorities or clear virtues. Plus, if you look at Open Syllabus the classics outside a few figures basically don't get taught anymore outside niche fields.C. B is basically what Alasdair MacIntyre described, just applied to culture. This then gets mixed in with an economic and political system that has all the instabilities and vices you see in Greek democracies, which made the liable to fall into endless cycles of social war and oligarchic demagoguery followed by populist demagoguery, followed by a flip back, etc.D. Above all this hangs consumerism which is raping the planet, leading to extreme short-termism, is the main motivation for high risk migration policy (stonks and housing cannot go down, retirees must be paid all they voted themselves regardless of if they funded it), break neck technological development with no questions about whether it actually serves the common good, and above all, legit extinction tier birthrates across wide areas.All of this courts disaster, but out of the ashes of the sick, obese, licentious American eagle (current hegemon and symbol of liberalism) perhaps a phoneix can emerge. Or, if God chooses to set his face against us and display His wrath, one could hardly blame Him.
>>25393023>become brown>IQ goes downIt's as simple as that.
>>25393019I genuinely prefer being degraded to the level of a dumb beast by my superiors.There's so much stress involved with maintaining the intellect, and exercising the responsibility for personal freedom.I feel much more secure under the authority of a capable wolf than lost in a conglomerate of incompetent sheep.As long as I have my television and pornography, I'll be okay. Any other pursuits are just vain aesthetics that don't really enrich the soul, but just deepens the abyss that they tread through.I may be an unremarkable human being, pathetic by some measures, but I feel like I've reached a level of self-honesty that makes me content with withdrawing from the world instead of entertaining the irrational notion that my meager existence will influence it for the better.Virtually no one really deserves to have a good life. They're fundamentally unsustainable, so our best option to properly service ourselves is by feasting on the rot of civilization, and engaging in the orgiastic depravity that follows the corruption at humanity's every scale.You'll never be observant enough to truly pierce the veil, so I'd relish in ignorance, if I were you.
>>25393069I think someone that doesn't deserve to have a good life should have a good life anyways. Isn't that a better state of affairs? How does pornography enrich the soul? It does enrich your sensual life and your pursuit of complex pleasures. But you are basically masturbating very slowly on a life-grade scale. You only enjoy the 'rot of civilization' because you have developed a masochist fetish where the rot of civilization is the object of desire. By debasing yourself and debasing others you are partaking into a group masturbation at this object of desire, such is your mind. Basing your worldview on a fetish may be a good soil for a literary project or a film, but ultimately, it is only dramatism that will hurt yourself and others. You may end up self-asphyxiating, but you don't have the right to dictate for others to do so too.
>>25392175trvthnvke
>>25392175This except for me
>>25393082>It does enrich your sensual lifeno it doesn't nigga porn isn't real, get a woman if you want booba and vagene >and your pursuit of complex pleasures.there is nothing complex about BONER PENIS COOM
>>25391561They’ll admit and give scholarships and grants to illiterate uninterested kids who just want to sleep with each other but I’ve no hope of attending any college without six figures of debt. Some of the smartest people alive who will just wipe the noses of 18 year olds forever. Humanities funding is dying anywayBurn it all down this place is a joke. Everyone just wants to be fat and stupid
I've been waiting for the opportunity to post this.
>>25393211I'm sorry. The world is messed up and it's genuinely wrong that the people who would appreciate education the most often find it inaccessible. But you can still learn things on your own. Most university textbooks are available online. You can also enroll later in life, when you're more financially set up. In my country at least, those people are called mature age students and they usually top the cohort every year. So sometimes waiting a little is good too.
>>25391561Here's my theory that I feel strongly about.At some point the right combination of politicians will do something about this, likely targeting younger kids through curriculum regulation and financial incentives for schools and libraries.Around the same time, older millennials, GenX, and late zoomers will start coming back to reading because other entertainment hobbies have either become too expensive, or the industries themselves have collapsedWhat this will all set up is an enormous explosion of book activity. Books will sell better than ever, but more than that industries surrounding books will rocket upward - ereaders and epubs in general, retail both online and brick-and-mortar, etc.If you have interest in books and any ability to invest or start a company, now is the time to get ready.
>>25391705Reading is the biggest cope. Braindead normies who actually enjoy life don't read.
>>25392163>The oligarch that funded trump want to create a technofeadulist state where citizens are mindless cattle in a open prison panopticon.So what?
>>25391661>>25391670And you’re fighting that by posting AI slop from your phone
>>25392163It's actually the complete opposite where educational (and behavioural) standards have been completely decimated so we can pretend that the genetic underclass can somehow surpass their biology in the name of equity
>>25393453>politicians will fix this.Religious mysticism goes in /x/.The problem is a problem of cultural values. Many Americans just don't give a shit about art, about knowledge, about anything other than family and entertainment. Education is job training. Then there's the 30% of Americans who are outright hostile to education and learning and who believe the only book you should read is m'bible.
>>25393556they've been reduced by 10%?
>>25391561I've been saying this for years and my college educated friend group (with STEM degrees no.less) claims I'm being ludicrous by saying this is an issue because>people read more now than ever because they read the internet!!Is there a term for the normie mind refusing to accept anything is an issue until the media/TV tells them it is? They would claim that water up to their knees is normal if they didn't get a flood warning from the government
>>25391561>and education levels.An inevitable result of the decline of merit-based admissions.
>>25393611The conclusion I've basically come to is that the United States needs the equivalent of someone taking a giant sledgehammer and smashing it into a thousand pieces.America, as it currently exists, is bad. Americans, as they currently exist, are bad. They, it, all of it, needs to be transformed into something different. But you won't get that without basically smashing the old world apart, and sweeping the pieces aside.
>>25393681who's a good country / populace?
Not a problem in the Netherlands. In fact, I don't know a single person that doesn't read. Bookstores are still expanding and renovating their buildings to be bigger, while new bookstores open all the time, usually specialised into niches.I have 7 bookstores in a 500 meter radius from where I live and 2 libraries. It used to be just 1 library and 3 bookstores 15 years ago.Seems like it's a cultural thing and just a sign of educational decline in the US. "No matter the graduation level" doesn't mean there isn't a decline. Being college educated in 1950 is a significant bar to clear with way higher standards than graduating in 2026 from a McCollege.Fix your education system and the readers will return.
>>25392296/lit/ already doesn’t read so imagine the discussion when the illusion of reading disappears.
>>25393069Dionysus liked that post
>>25393728FranceJapanRussiaArgentinaNorwayThey do still seem to read books in those countries, at least.
>>25393556Complete bullshit espoused by racist to justify a more fascist state and erode american liberties.
>>25393430Im glad I lived in the 00s going to school because there wasnt as much open bullying. People and kids would maybe brunch up their nose or say something under their breathe if they saw you reading but that was it.
>>25393872>american liberties
>>25393882Civil liberties?
Critical thinking and good literacy just arent rewarded in todays society. Politicians and big media wants u angry and engaged, but only to push their own narrative. Otherwise you shall be a good cog in the system, where critical thinking and literacy is only a hinderance.
>>25393884Its why it was important to punish felicity Huffman for her cheating on the sat for her daughter. It didnt actually mean anything but as a show to the hoi polloi that the reason there is a class divide is because of meritocracy and not because of the elite scheming their way on poor people's dime.
>>25391561>Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57 percent of Americans placed a bet.*stroking pistol in the casino* In vino veritas ... Eventus stultorum magister."Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man."
>>25391561>Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57 percent of Americans placed a bet.Just noticed this. Isn't being a degenerate gambler the true /lit/ lifestyle?
>>25393430Should of posted it on Jew Lie Forth, (seventeen seventy six)!
>>25393013>>25393458You sound like those retarded socialists who think they'll be party officials after the revolution instead of being shot.
>>25392990>Still, I don’t understand how someone ha able to function in modern society without using basic literacy. Even using this website (or any other website online) requires a basic level of literacy.A phone does most everything for you. Calculations, text to speech, calendar reminders etc. The reason why "people" send each other voice messages is cause they are too retarded to type it out. There are also plenty of jobs where you don't really need literacy. Amazon warehouse work for example; these people imagine themselves to be part of a long line of honourable blue collar labourers, when in fact a golden retriever could do the job better if he had opposable thumbs
>>25393750This isn’t exactly something to brag about though, because if we look at the kind of slop that supports the industry we could reasonably suspect lots of book readers are dumber than some non book readers. And “bookstore people” tend to prefer that kind of material. But maybe it’s different over there
>>25393455>Reading is the biggest cope. Braindead normies who actually enjoy life don't read.Eat shit! Millions of flies can't be wrong!
>>25391561>The study looked at people who had read a book, magazine, or newspaper; listened to an audiobook; or read an e-book.so basically theyre buttmad that readers have ditched the old dusty mediums they have editor control over in favor of reading amateur poetry in instagram captions, short stories on reddit and serialized novels on royal road..... damn that sucks bro.
>>25393455Trvke
>>25393798>France>Russia>Argentinagood joke.
>>25393017>Reading social media posts... is still readingnigga please>>25393872you're aware of the anarcho-tyranny theory that the importation of illiterate, inbred third world savages causing an explosion in crime is on purpose to justify mass surveilance, digital IDs, and so on right?
I really dont understand how people are denying this just because booktok and book sales are big. If you talk to your family/friends/coworkers it becomes quite evident that only a minority of the population reads books. Hell in my state, NY, 22% of the adult population is functionally illiterate. There has been several times the lasr couple years I have spoken to fellow college educated zoomers that did not know simple historical stuff as well ie who was Mao or what WW2 was about. Very sad state of affairs.>>25393455Normalfags cope by dating 4/10 fat girls and getting fucked by dudes who view them as a hole. Reading is a very nice cope.>>25391599Flippy bippy, would solve the identity politc issue as well.
>>25394068>noooo!! society will get worse!!Not my problem, let sexhavers deal with it
>>25393751>I-I only read the g-greeks, a-anyway>I'm an erudite!>t. average /lit/ user
>>25393440I already pursue what I can on my own. But I would still have loved to receive focused mentorship. Also I’ll never have access to certain resources or have the ability to contribute to the field. I also can’t ever work a job related to it without qualification. And even if I did have that, the strong impression I get is that the jobs just are not there even if I somehow got admitted to the top tier schools in my field and was willing to take six figures of debt to the face.I’m incredibly embittered and despondent. I’m like the academically focused equivalent of Uncle Rico. I desperately wish I could have had that shot. And then I see constant articles like this of people at these places who have no business being there. There’s really nothing in life I’d rather do but the window just isn’t there anymore. Sometimes I daydream about being a politician so I can change how education works and how hiring works but there’s no chance of that either. This country is a lurching corpse. Change just doesn’t seem possible especially coming from the bottom up like in my case. This country is an anti intellectual nightmare and it likes it.
>>25394291People like you should be shot in the back of the head. You are an unapologetic enemy of all that is good.
>>25394427Seethe
>>25392360>>25392362It really is difficult to gauge the readership of Americans, isn't it? One person will write a jeremiad lamenting the death of popular intellectual life in America, citing multiple surveys and educators, yet surveys such as these tell a different story. I don't know what to make of it.>>25391599Why are Russians like this?
>>25392388Funnily enough BookTok famously DOESN’T read. They care more about acquiring books and having a neat collection than they do about actually reading.
>>25394195So are the Republicans or democrats importing the immigrants?
>>25393453>Swapping [reading] for [opera/plays/musicals/ballet]Yeah, sure bro.
>>25391603No. Boundless enjoyment is bad.
>only way to succeed is literal jewish-style scams and "bolt of cloth" short-term thinking>surprised when everyone does that
Audiobooks are clearly the future, that's not to say paper books will have no use, it's just so much fucking easier to listen to an audiobook. Yeah you might lose some quality of information consumption, but the ease of consumption more than makes up for it.
When AI gets good enough to convert any book in existence into a high quality, well spoken audiobook, the average human intelligence will skyrocket.I don't know why AI researchers aren't focusing more on this.
>>25394698false dichotomy, it's nowhere near that simple
>>25394560WTF I love BookTok now. They are just like us>>25395546Not only a spoken audiobook. You can even make it a dialogue>ai: after event x and y parted>user: do x and y meet each other again?>ai: x and y have met each other 10 years later>user: what has happened to y in the meantime>ai: y has locked himself into his parents basement and pretended to read classic literature to talk down to other anons on an imageboard for failed weebs>>25391561Their metric is flawed. People still read. I'm certain that their tests for reading comprehension are about made up texts nobody cares about
>>25395549I mean it’s mainly the Jews pushing and funding it and they control both parties, so it kinda is. >>25394195I think the greater condemnation of immigration is gumball guy explaining how immigration detrimental it is to the vast majority people and that no permanent soltuion to global proverty can be found through it.
>>25394698both. Democrats want guaranteed votes and to abolish Whiteness by bringing in brown savages. Republicans just do whatever their ZOG + corporate donors demand, they don't care about jeets going up the corporate ladder through DEI+ethnic nepotism and firing thousands of American workers just to bring in thousands of other jeets on visas.
>>25395462>"bolt of cloth" short-term thinkinghad to google this, thank you for introducing a new idea to me.
>>25391561>Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book:I predicted this years ago. Jacking off, gambling and drugs will be the only activities known to disgusting fucking cattle normie subhumans. It was only a matter of time thanks to (((democracy))).
>>25392388>see the fact that Hunger Games novel being the most sold oneyoull find a significant amount if not the majority will be people over the age of 20 and many of those over 30
>>25392475>According to January 2023 WordsRated statistics, 51% of YA books are purchased by people between the ages of 30 and 44, and 78% of those buyers said that they intended to read the books themselves.
>>25393455Normies don't enjoy life they're always passive aggressive and sarcastic.
>>25393645>>people read more now than ever because they read the internet!!you could maybe use this argument a decade ago when people went on facebook, tumblr, reddit or whatever. Normoids now exlusively look at 10-60s clips and pictures
>>25395540>it's just so much fucking easier to listen to an audiobookwhy? I find audiobooks harder
They kind of stopped teaching kids how to read for a few decades in public school. They only started to correct this mistake since the pandemic. While Covid was horrible for public education overall, it actually might have saved literacy by revealing to parents how completely stupid the reading curriculum was for grade schoolers. Most parents don't get very actively involved in their child's education and assume the teachers know what they're doing. Even if they have doubts about it, they assume people who went to college to learn how to educate children in fact know how to educate children, and default to simply going along with whatever the school says is best. Covid forced a lot of parents to sit in on their young kids' teleconference school lessons, and for the first time they experienced what they were doing in reading class. And they realized immediately this shit was not teaching them anything. Worse, it was actively sabotaging their ability to learn to read, giving them anti-reading habits that they would have to unlearn before they could ever read properly. A lot of those kids who got sabotaged by their public schools are now adults who can't read, or only read with extreme difficulty and naturally don't enjoy it.
>>25396755So in other words, a majority of YA books are still read by the intended audience.
>>25395546Figures illiterate morons are the ones who think AI isn't a scam
>>25393453>At some point the right combination of politicians will do something about thislollmao
>>25391599Trvke
>>25391561This is a bizzare delusion conjured up by intellectual cowardice and willful ignorance of the reality of cognitive divergence among ethnicities. Let's just say reading comprehension is not declining in Asian countries.
>>25392362>behead all old minority men. They are tanking the stats.your own data shows minority men are barely below white men though?
>>25393728Ethnonationalist countries
>>25396892If parents knew how bad it was they would hang pedagogues and physicians and politickers.
>>25396895Cmon, more adults are reading Diary of a Winpy kid every year and rereading themThere are ai models trained off the books and custom fan books that can endlessly churn slop.
>>25395546>When AI gets good enough to convert any book in existence into a high quality, well spoken audiobook, the average human intelligence will skyrocket.>I don't know why AI researchers aren't focusing more on this.
>>25396967The people responsible will likely never face justice. I think it's hilarious that the biggest proponents of this whole disaster were, almost uniformly, women. It was a woman from New Zealand who first published a study on how kids learn to read which was full of completely wrong information, and formed the basis of all the bullshit curriculum that would persist in public education for decades, and grow out of control in the 90s. That's when her two main disciples (also women) started publishing educational materials for teachers that pushed all her bunk methods as "scientific driven teaching". The truly hilarious and also sad thing is this woman believed she had discovered the "secret" of how "good readers" learn to read. In actually what she discovered were the coping strategies used by illiterates to get by without knowing how to read. So instead of teaching kids how to actually read, they basically convinced them reading is impossible and they should immediately adopt coping strategies that illiterates use, which makes reading frustrating or even impossible.
>>25396996qrd for the uninformed?
>>25396963Such as?
>>25396499>I predicted this years ago.Rudyard the Autist here to tell us he did what Nostrodamus did first.
>>25397015Israel
forums are better than books
>>25396888Harder in what way? Maybe for fiction when you're trying to follow the flow of a story, but for non-fiction and technical books, the amount of pure data and knowledge you can just beam into your mind and think about on the fly is staggering, so for the practical book reader it's just infinitely more powerful, everyone is different of course but if you're like me it's just like the Matrix when they beam a Kung Fu program directly into your mind and I just don't get that with paper books although I value them greatly too, for me reading paper books is tedious but audiobooks aren't.Maybe it's because when you read, you actually have to exert quite a bit of effort in the actual act of reading itself, but with audiobooks you literally have to do zero effort, just listen to and consider what the writer is talking about directly with no filter.
>>25391599It never ceases to amaze me that people will take the inevitable result of statist intervention in education, and somehow come to the conclusion that freedom is to blame.
>>25396996source?
>>25397015China, Japan
>>25397314No
>>25394698yes
>>25393003anon youre right but picrel
>>25396895No, because you can't assume that the 22% who bought the books for someone else intend the recipients to be minors, especially given the 51% who claimed to be reading them for themselves.
>>25394416Things are okay. You got to live an authentic life and there's never been easier access to the humanities. It sucks that academia is fake but its been that way for a long time (Jude the Obscure). It's sort of inevitable that an ivory tower would rot.
>>25392163a trvke /lit/ can't bear
>>25391561why are you crying you wanted a diverse country this a result
>>25400271normalniggers always win because they're billions
>>25393003>Leave your house and you'll notice that the average person isn't actually that badso much this! they're a lot worse!
I never read (books.)Why would I?
>>25392163If only I read books I could believe nonsense like this and huff my own farts. Damn, I'm really missing out.
>>25395546No.Audiobooks already exist for any worthwhile book.Most of them are even free to access.Most importantly, no matter how much you want to think your gay little hobby is super important, reading books doesn't improve intelligence.
>>25400370the very concept of reading as a hobby is despicableyou read a book when there's a book you want to read
>>25400382Sure, I agree with that.Most people I've met who are avid readers just read best seller fiction slop and forget it in a few months beyond basic plot points.These people are no better than tv watchers.Books definitely do not make people more intelligent.The opposite phenomenon can occur though, take for example people picking up the same subgenre of political book - where the point of nonfiction should be learning or broadening your perspective this kind of shit has the opposite effect.I'm sure all the pol fags in this thread read tons of content from their favorite propagandists to calcify their viewpoint and give them heckin great counterarguments for their meaningless facebook group debates.
>>25391561This board doesn't read
>>25392722Yes, unironically Shay's rebellion. And the whisky rebellion, and the abolitionist movement was pretty starkly against the monied interests of the time. The industrial revolution forcibly backseated all other cultural considerations to "progress", and "progress" is defined by the industrialists' PR teams. The rapid evolution of capitalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries completely mindraped American culture and it's the reason we're all seen as materialistic vapid poltroons instead of rugged yeomen
>>25396996WatExplain please
>>25400535Anon is referring to phonics based instruction being replaced by whole language instruction - which teaches kids to read to by guessing at words through context and pictures instead of sounding them out.
>>25393898Hm.... ceteris paribus... etcetera... *smokes pipe*
>>25400405>I'm sure all the pol fags in this thread read tons of content from their favorite propagandists to calcify their viewpointI have never watched /pol/shit and what calcified my viewpoint the most was hearing what leftists have to say about straight white men.>b-but not allwhy are those racists sexists etc. never cancelled?
>>25400569white fragility is a hell of a drug
>>25397000>>25398689look up "reading wars"if you know anybody in early childhood education they definitely have strong opinions on Lucy Calkins
>>25397607You may have mild dyslexia
>>25392360So it's 1/5 of huwite amerifats. 1/4 blacks. Spics are basically a coinflip if they can read. The much vaunted female supremacy in reading comes down to 5 percentage points. If we bracketed out huwite men and women specifically would there even be a difference?>>25392362And as to the death of the physical medium and rise of ebooks and audiobooks seems like that's not true either.
>>25400570>complains about calcification>canned responseIt's time to leave this site, and never come back, sister
>>25400569lolThis faggot >>25400570 is not me, the person you're responding to. I couldn't say things like white fragility without feeling incredibly stupid.
It's a solid and thorough article, and I know for damn sure the vast majority of posters itt didn't read it based on their retarded opinions which are refuted in it.
