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.
Internet culture is an amazing thing, hey random internet user, please explain socialism vs communism vs capitalism to me..
No interest in reading a book I see, or hell even looking up a webpage or a youtube video.
Kids these days.
I just meant that at least she, on a personal level, makes progress(how little that may be, but bit by bit) just by even questioning capitalism at all.
Yeah I have to say I'm pretty skeptical that Vice put out a video like you're describing. Do you have a link?
People often learn better through social interaction, nothing wrong with that.
There is actually quite a lot wrong with that and that's why we have books and teach people how to study in the first place. Good for very simple things, terrible for anything of any complexity.
You’re interpreting “social interaction” very narrowly. Most anything complex that I’ve learned has been facilitated by interactions with an instructor or someone otherwise already familiar with a topic.
Reading is hard bro. I've been on English Language and Literature scholarships since I was about 8 years old and I find most written theory way too complicated. My way in has been through a collection of Chomsky speeches edited and put into writing - it's so much more understandable this way. I'm flying through a book for the first time in years.
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.
This is an op somehow but I haven't figured out the details yet
I mean, does that thumbnail picture look to y'all how it looks on my end?
