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Reading Isn’t “Dead”: Text Is (Still) King

By Filings on Tue, 02/03/26
Society & Culture
Reading
Writing
Western Civilization
Post-literacy

“The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput…. We are careening toward a post-literate society, where myth, intuition, and emotion replace logic, evidence, and science. Nobody needs to bomb us back to the Stone Age; we have decided to walk there ourselves. I am skeptical of this thesis.” - Persuasion

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