/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17701127]

90% of people are functionally illiterate. The vast majority of people in the world would be unable to read a mid-length college reading level novel and comprehend it.
Ironically, despite all of society's effort to educate the masses, functional literacy rates have decreased in the West. Most zoomers are unable to read anything longer than a tiktok caption or twitter reply.

[Anonymous No.17701132]

>>17701127
tl;dr

[Anonymous No.17701169]

>>17701127
Good, it makes me look smart in comparison to everyone despite being a midwit pseud.

[son of sam No.17701776]

Then pair this fact to the idea that democracy is the prominent system in the world, no wonder this world is not too far from blowing up

[Anonymous No.17701789]

>>17701132
Picrel

[Anonymous No.17701793]

>>17701776
>democracy
a myth

[Anonymous No.17701810]

>>17701127
whats an example of a novel 90% of the U.S adult population could not comprehend?

[Anonymous No.17701814]

>>17701810
Man without Qualities

[Anonymous No.17701853]

>>17701127
>a mid-length college reading level novel
Give me THREE (3) examples of such novels.

[Anonymous No.17701868]

>>17701127
I honestly think comprehension is the real problem rather than their ability to read. A cynic would say it's just NPCs being exposed for what they are, though.

[Anonymous No.17701880]

>>17701127
So fucking what you can say the same about literally anything different people are good at different things

[Anonymous No.17701954]

how does it feel being one of the elite? You fat, disgusting, balding man .

[Anonymous No.17701963]

Looking at people seething here, it's too evident that /lit/ has many non-readers lately

[Anonymous No.17702642]

thought this on the shitter a couple days ago. There are things that live off our waste. Even parasites thrive in shit. What if there's something out there whose refuse would be like the most valuable thing for humans? Like it shat gold or sweat crude oil or exhaled some rare, hard to acquire chemical?

[Anonymous No.17702671]

>>17701127
Meh, it has always been like this. A decrease in functional literacy is the expected outcome of lower IQ immigration and native dysgenics. Something like that alone wouldn't tells us anything about cultural developments. And in fact we're thanks to audiobooks in a situation where more people than ever before are able to consume books.

[Anonymous No.17702711]

>>17701127
Feels good to belong to the intellectual elite caste.

[Anonymous No.17702748]

>>17701127
>despite all of society's effort to educate the masses
School serves to train obedience, servility, and the ability to follow simple instructions, and it succeeds admirably
And whatever you think, you are just another consumer drone, trying to feel good about your impotence through your consumerist hobby

[Anonymous No.17702758]

>>17702748
damn...

[Anonymous No.17702769]

>>17701810
Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.17702775]

>>17701127
>functionally illiterate
whats the difference between that and normal illiteracy?

[Anonymous No.17702972]

>>17702748
>>17702758
This the Americans adopted the Prussian model which instilled loyalty, but removed all the references directly to monarchy -- This is a core reason why Americans are so schizo.

[Anonymous No.17702995]

>>17702642
birds and bats shit guano, which is pretty valuable to humans

[Anonymous No.17703409]

>>17702642
Like plants giving off oxgyen you mean?

[Anonymous No.17703432]

>>17701127
>despite all of society's effort to educate the masses
American society has little goal in "educating" the masses. The goal is to make a functional consumer. Basic reading skills are one of the only things you need, and thats all most people have.

Basic reading gives you all the tools you need to read advertisements and propaganda.

[Anonymous No.17703500]

>>17701793
True but the plebs don’t know it’s all fake and gay.

[Anonymous No.17703550]

>>17701880
Sure, but there are certain things that everyone should be good (or at least decent) at. Reading is one of them.