I have never read a book in my life. I might as well be illiterate, and most people around me might as well be too. Most libraries are vacant, and bookstores are gone. But all these people are doing fine - we put anything down on paper, and despite its incoherence it seems fine by standards that have stooped for reasons I do not know. I can turn in something that makes absolutely no sense, and an instructor from a decent school will tell me that he enjoyed it. Or an instructor won’t enjoy it, but since most people don’t write anything comprehensible anymore I’ll still be fine. I can cruise through my education and get a job while barely having read much at all. Everyone frequents some variant of flimsy entertainment - cable news, cartoons, social media - so why bother trying to read anything worthwhile anyways if nobody else is? Does reading actually make you more curious, more intelligent, more human?
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Troll. Sheesh. The only other post he made is an adequacyDOTorg style post about having schools teach mostly sports, with some English and math, and no history or science. And too many questions, and on a subject that themotte would be perceived to oppose.
(And how do I prevent adequacy dot org from being automatically converted into a link?)
Some troll posts are bad but this at least provides some food for thought.
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