Kids these days. When I was a teenager all I had to indoctrinate me was whatever Chomsky books were sold at my mall bookstore.
Also, just a heads up, she's fifteen. Since we aren't libertarians here I hope nothing else needs to be said regarding that.
This is a good point. We are truly in an episteme of oral communication. Is it any wonder that we are finding it harder to engage with monologic texts that require attentiveness and close reading strategies and finding it easier to read dialogic texts that were originally lectures or speeches? I'm sure Marshall McLuhan would even connect the worldwide rise of nationalism to our turn to oral media and a resulting, renewed sense of tribalism.
A stat that is undoubtedly true but I still can't believe is that in 2019 for the first time more than half of all Americans over the age of 12 listened to an audiobook, and nearly one quarter of Americans listened to 10 or more in the past year. In contrast, 10 percent of American adults are illiterate, and nearly one quarter did not read a single book in part or whole last year.