I hate this line of thought. I would bet more than 21% of jobs don't require 'functional literacy' and I say this because the term is pretty much defined by one's ability to hold an office job. You can screw on a bolt on an assembly line or mow a lawn without knowing a letter of the alphabet.
Most people feel under-stimulated by their jobs rather than intellectually overwhelmed.
Functional illiteracy doesn't explain why think tanks, TV news, and establishment papers have such great power over the minds of people.
I had an accounting professor back in college whose net worth I would estimate above 3 million. Really smart person but he was about as reactionary as it gets. So no, that doesn't explain shit. Plenty of better societies have had more illiterates.
I had an accounting professor back in college whose net worth I would estimate above 3 million. Really smart person but he was about as reactionary as it gets.
Your accounting professor is massively profiting from the current state of affairs, so them being a reactionary is entirely unsurprising.
Illiteracy isn't the only source of reactionism, but it makes it easier to propagandize people against their own self interests. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that most functionally illiterate people aren't rich.
agree with everything you said, but the point im trying to make is if labor unions and other radical organizations had some presence in people's lives, the functionally illeterate would be just as likely to be propagandized by the left as the right.
the taft hartley bill alone is a better explanation of why we're where we're at. bourgious society has had complete control over public discourse for the past 50 years.
I hate this line of thought. I would bet more than 21% of jobs don't require 'functional literacy' and I say this because the term is pretty much defined by one's ability to hold an office job. You can screw on a bolt on an assembly line or mow a lawn without knowing a letter of the alphabet.
Most people feel under-stimulated by their jobs rather than intellectually overwhelmed.
Functional illiteracy doesn't explain why think tanks, TV news, and establishment papers have such great power over the minds of people.
I had an accounting professor back in college whose net worth I would estimate above 3 million. Really smart person but he was about as reactionary as it gets. So no, that doesn't explain shit. Plenty of better societies have had more illiterates.
Your accounting professor is massively profiting from the current state of affairs, so them being a reactionary is entirely unsurprising.
Illiteracy isn't the only source of reactionism, but it makes it easier to propagandize people against their own self interests. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that most functionally illiterate people aren't rich.
agree with everything you said, but the point im trying to make is if labor unions and other radical organizations had some presence in people's lives, the functionally illeterate would be just as likely to be propagandized by the left as the right.
the taft hartley bill alone is a better explanation of why we're where we're at. bourgious society has had complete control over public discourse for the past 50 years.
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