inshallah2 [none/use name] to the_dunk_tank • edit-23 years agoI knew it was bad. I didn't know it was THIS bad: "54% of adults in the US have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level."external-linkmessage-square117 fedilinkarrow-up1164
arrow-up1164external-linkI knew it was bad. I didn't know it was THIS bad: "54% of adults in the US have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level."inshallah2 [none/use name] to the_dunk_tank • edit-23 years agomessage-square117 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarehexaflexagonbear [he/him]hexbear38·3 years agoAmericans becoming poetry-pilled and giving up on prose en masse. link
minus-squarerubpoll [she/her]hexbear12·3 years agoToo much work. Historians will pour over mountains of image memes trying to understand the final days of the American era. link
minus-squareD3FNC [any]hexbear2·3 years agoIt’s incredible that you believe there will be future generations of historians with access to stored media. Rather than a dead ocean, famine ridden hellscape with a small cluster of survivors trying and failing to reach their 30th birthday. link
minus-squareThe_Champsky [he/him]hexbear10·edit-23 years agoAnd they said "there's no poets in communism". Fuck the coal mines, let's mandate a poem a week from people and get that literacy level back up. :wojak-nooo: :xi-gun: "Go write the poems, liberal." link
minus-squarekarl3422 [none/use name]hexbear8·3 years agopoetry would probably really help as they'd have to think about inferring meaning and finding quotes to back up their interpretations link
Americans becoming poetry-pilled and giving up on prose en masse.
Too much work. Historians will pour over mountains of image memes trying to understand the final days of the American era.
It’s incredible that you believe there will be future generations of historians with access to stored media. Rather than a dead ocean, famine ridden hellscape with a small cluster of survivors trying and failing to reach their 30th birthday.
I meant historians in China.
And they said "there's no poets in communism".
Fuck the coal mines, let's mandate a poem a week from people and get that literacy level back up.
:wojak-nooo: :xi-gun:
"Go write the poems, liberal."
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poetry would probably really help as they'd have to think about inferring meaning and finding quotes to back up their interpretations