Is it over? I think it's over.
>>25512364you google his name and this thing comes up. fitting.
>>25512388i had the same experience
>>25512388Would
it's funny how much of non-fiction is just flattering the reader into wasting their time and money on the book.
*available in audiobook format of course it is. another waste of time for "educated" people to jerk themselves off to.
>>25512431isn't Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong supposed to be the non-popularized/commercially topical version of that? all these sorts of books/articles always cite this by default.
>>25512470Ong bussin fr no cap
"Reading" has ended because "writing" has
>>25512364Reading is boring
>>25512364The ancients were right in only having 10 percent of the population be literate. Most people are midwits
When poor, brown people don't read, they're illiterate, but when wh*teoids can't read they're post-literate
>men aren't reading the latest Asian diaspora tiktok romantasy slop>literacy is over
>>25512364The decurion, the senator, the "venerable members of the curia"—as they styled themselves, for these men, descended from mere freedmen, slave traders, or veteran colonists, put on the airs of patricians and ancient Quirites—were not always in a position to hand over to the tax agent the quota he was ordered to collect. Voting was one thing; actual collection was another. When the municipality was exhausted, at the end of its resources, and ruined, the Roman citizens comprising it might well be beaten with cudgels by local bailiffs and police guards until sheer physical collapse, but expecting sesterces from them was a fantasy. Consequently, the imperial official—himself a victim of his superiors—did not hesitate for long. He would, in turn, call upon his own lictors and bluntly demand that the "venerable" and "illustrious" senators make up the shortfall from their own pockets—funds he needed to balance his accounts. The illustrious senators would refuse, deeming the demand inappropriate; whereupon, all respect cast aside, they were subjected to the very same treatment and indignities they so lavishly meted out to the free subjects under their administration (1).
>>25512388Gross.
