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7943818 No.7943818 [Reply] [Original]

Was universal literacy a mistake?

>> No.7943821

it's not like there was a choice, so you can't call it a mistake

>> No.7943822

>>7943818
Why was it a mistake? Please explain.

>> No.7943823

>>7943818
was frogposting a mistake

>> No.7943839
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7943839

>>7943818
Was Easter a mistake?

>> No.7943861

>>7943818
If this faggot was illiterate this garbage would have never been posted, so maybe...

>> No.7943871
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7943871

>universal
>literacy
>mistake

>> No.7943872

>>7943861
kek

>> No.7943901

>>7943861

My gott

>> No.7943919

>>7943861
best post i've seen in a long time

>> No.7943943

>>7943822

Because now the plebs can read. And since they're the majority, they dictate book culture.

>> No.7943949

>>7943818
kill yourself, frog faggot

>> No.7943953

>>7943943
>book culture

What's that?

>> No.7943972

>>7943943
they just dont read

>> No.7943985

an educated populace is necessary for the proper conducting of the affairs of a modern republic such as voting and ironic frogposting

>> No.7943988

Was sliced bread a mistake?

>> No.7944015

>>7943985
>voting

He thinks letting bobby, with his 80 IQ, vote is a good thing.

>> No.7944024

Universal literacy does not yet exist.

>> No.7944027

>>7944024
autism detected

>> No.7944029

>>7944027

>> No.7944033
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7944033

>>7943823
Yes.

>> No.7944056

ahah, yes monsieur caecilian!! had i not been literate would i not had haply read that sweet little note ""she"" ((what was her name monsieur? ;)) threw into the fire..

>> No.7944074

>>7944033
how?

>> No.7944078

Were laundry machines a mistake?

>> No.7944085
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7944085

Was mayonnaise a mistake?

>> No.7944152
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7944152

Universal literacy is pointless since 40% of people don't bother to read anyway. I expect very few people consume high art, it's not for the masses anyway. The left have this dream of factory workers listening to Ives or reading Aeschylus between shifts. Trotsky boasted that the future would be populated by genius. With universal liberation, and education, and eugenics, there would be a Beethoven and Kant on every street corner. It's laughable. Most plebs would rather watch something on the tube, or just sit around doing nothing. Their dream: Sun, sea, sex, and sun. The television isn't even the main problem these days, it's social media. Children just sit on iPads blank faced, YouTube or whatever, or vacantly stare into the television. They are rotting their brains. Some don't even know what a book is.

It may sound edgy, but it's why we don't live in a democracy. Democracies assume educated, responsible voters. Most people are essentially cattle these days, but they're told that their "MOOOOO EVERYONE IS EQUAL -- gibs me money" spiel is valid because political democracy. Artistic democracy has ruined music for instance, to such a degree that composers have been exiled into atonalism. The sublimity of a Bach fugue or the effortless beauty of a Mozart sonata are lost on most people. Most people will say "Bach is boring" BORING THEY SAY! even the bard, a man that wrote for all people, is "old fashioned", or "boring" to most people. Shakespeare elevated the base, but our masses refuse to be carried up with him. It's tragic.

If we turn to the music of Beethoven or the art of Delacroix we find the failure of this liberal idealism. Rousseau's idealistic dream crumbles to ash when we move from Beethoven's "then, mankind climbed into the light" (naive to us now), to furiously scribbling out the 3rd Symphony as Napoleon declares himself Emperor. They became intoxicated by their own delusions, fantasy and reality blurred into a dreamy romantic fiction. The collapse of the dream caused all of these figures great distress.

The dream of the Liberal Reformers collapsed into industrial death and mass consumerism. The '68 revolutionaries were in many ways children of the romantic. The boomers now still cling on to their hippie delusions. The multicultural dream has died. The delusion of a new Europe to end all war and conflict has simply internalized the conflict into people's streets. No longer do invading *soldiers* rape civilians, in provincial villages. Rather the civilians are raped by silent invaders, in their own capital city!

So too the dream of universal literacy died. Like all these other liberal fogs, it parted to reveal what we already knew but refused to accept.

>> No.7944161

>>7944152
>40% of people

It's much higher than that.

>> No.7944168

>>7944152
I'm just glad I can read despite not being part of an aristocracy. That's probably the only part about mass literacy I give a shit about.

>> No.7944170

>>7944152
>most people are essentially cattle these days
Unlike yourself, a superior patrician genius, am I right? So when do you start your campaign to reunify Europe under an enlightened absolutism? Or are you and your faux-reactionary pretentiousness just another misguided symptom of the endless spastic flailing that is the collective human response to the triviality of modern capitalist dystopia?

>> No.7944174

>>7944170
>>7944170
>>7944170
>>7944170

>> No.7944178

>>7944152
There you are Ignatius!

Have you completed your manuscript yet?

>> No.7944578

>>7943818
Your mistake is thinking you're at the top.

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>>7944074

>> No.7944675

>>7943818
Yes because no one ever explains satisfactorily what literacy is for.

>> No.7944735

>>7944675
Literacy is literally being able to read. Not necessarily books. It can be letters, it can be government forms and other official papers. Taxes. Voting.
Being able to function in a modern society. 200 years ago people voted like the local religious figure told them to, and your grandmother probably voted like her husband. But we didn't abandon the vote because of that.
Reading books for the enjoyment is a byproduct, one from which ideas and reflexion is derived.
If you don't think getting more people involved in their society's life is a good thing, you're starting out with a pessimistic outlook on politics because you don't think things can change. It might be an illusion (that things can change) but in politics illusions are very much stronger than in reality.

>> No.7946460

>>7943818
We don't have universal literacy.