Criticism of "Dawn of the post-literate society"
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- Message Posted to Online Forum/Discussion Group
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- 09/20/2025
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- Sep 20, 2025
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Criticism of "The dawn of post-literate society"
I enjoy reading as much as anyone, but I find these kinds of posts to be very short-sighted. First off, civilization precedes mass reading by millennia. To attribute the Enlightenment and modern industrial civilization to reading, and any counter-movement against the Enlightenment as anti-reading, is to fundamentally…