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Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today.
They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn’t read newspapers, which doesn’t read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context.
This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn’t even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations.
✍️ Patrick West
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the #PostLiterate society of #Brutes, #Idiots and #Hedonists
Desperately looking for meaning that ain't in drugs or sex..
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#PostLiterate #Literature. Starting a new piece of writing today for my Substack with that title.
#LiteraturePosts where AI roasts.
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As is pointed out, this has been an evident trend for years in what *were* literate western societies. At the same time, many emerging markets have jumped straight from illiterate to post-literate in practical terms. People don’t read more than the bare minimum of road signs, etc., day to day.
What isn’t evident here is just what a disaster that’s likely to be for us all across different dimensions over time.
Who needs literature? Or poetry? Or history? Or biography? Or essays? Or dissertations? Or even long reads?
We *all* do.
Sorry, but watching infotainment is just not going to cut it, long term.
There’s a difference between a ‘literate society’, meaning everyone can read road signs, etc., which the World Bank measures in its statistics, and a literate society where people actually READ. And WRITE. And THINK. And DISCUSS.
“Man shall not live by bread alone”, as Deuteronomy 8:3 puts it. Not that many will read it, if this trend continues!
Man also can’t live by bread and circuses alone. We need real mental nutrition that can only come from a truly literate society.
#WorldBookDay’21 reminds us what Alberto Manguel once said, “...maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” In a #postliterate 🌏, let our ❤️ for #reading shape our mind.
Today a reader
Tomorrow a leader
The Future of Social Audio: Startups, Roadmap, Business Models, and a Forecast
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I've made a new post! @zenpundit and @KaurinShanks, you might like this one.
What, informationally speaking, are the tactical implications of living a society in transition from #postliterate to #postscientific?
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#asemic #asemicwriting #concreteart #concretepoetry #poetryfoundation #vispo #visualpoetry #visualpoem #experimental #postliteracy #postliterate #federicofederici #noise… https://t.co/2feb4pcqzY
Writing about found leaves n. 1 (photocopy) ¶ #asemic #asemicwriting #concreteart #concretepoetry #poetryfoundation #vispo #visualpoetry #visualpoem #experimental #postliteracy #postliterate #federicofederici… https://t.co/fxE4VQz1S6
"Some ... concluded that he didn't read because he just didn't have to, and that in fact this was one of his key attributes as a populist. He was postliterate — total television." #PostLiterate https://t.co/jGOv3Mhg3b
There are definitely parts of Michael Wolff's book that are wrong, sloppy, or betray off-the-record confidence. But there are 2 things he gets absolutely right, even in the eyes of White House officials who think some of the book's scenes are fiction https://t.co/DeqFILn5iZ
Literally, PostLiterate.
Donald #Trump, the First President of Our #PostLiterate Age - Bloomberg View https://t.co/1cuCsLcNWU
@leahthehunter re #emojis not universal per se, #postliterate is a term i first hear off an MIT Medialab video genius in 1996.
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