Reading is the metric, but the implications are so much worse.
This isn’t about if someone can read articles and get facts, even literate people don’t do that.
The problem is that reading comprehension is directly tied to one’s ability to comprehend, manage and categorize information in one’s brain. When you learn to read, you teach your brain to take complex ideas information and organize them into manageable sets and abstractions using language.
When you don’t have this “enhancement” to your internal dialogue and cognition, you don’t have a rich inner-voice if any at all, and you just go along with whatever you feel and whatever story is provided to you.
Make no mistake, the destruction of our education was deliberate and planned and it’s working exactly as intended. If we try to organize and even get budgets passed to increase our education capacity, our teacher’s pay, our textbooks and schools and so on, we will still be fighting far more wealthy organizations and corporations who want a population that stares transfixed at shows about people buying things.
Reading is the metric, but the implications are so much worse.
This isn’t about if someone can read articles and get facts, even literate people don’t do that.
The problem is that reading comprehension is directly tied to one’s ability to comprehend, manage and categorize information in one’s brain. When you learn to read, you teach your brain to take complex ideas information and organize them into manageable sets and abstractions using language.
When you don’t have this “enhancement” to your internal dialogue and cognition, you don’t have a rich inner-voice if any at all, and you just go along with whatever you feel and whatever story is provided to you.
Make no mistake, the destruction of our education was deliberate and planned and it’s working exactly as intended. If we try to organize and even get budgets passed to increase our education capacity, our teacher’s pay, our textbooks and schools and so on, we will still be fighting far more wealthy organizations and corporations who want a population that stares transfixed at shows about people buying things.
If folks comprehended they are 1) oppressed 2) by rich folks 3) stealing from them 4) as a pleasure, we’d be on the communist utopia a century ago.
But no. I live in the psychopath utopia