You know, when people first started talking about the illiteracy crisis I thought it was hyperbolic scare-mongering but as time has passed I've realized that yeah, no, that's absolutely a real thing that's happening
@coriander in high school i was like illiteracy?? people are constantly online and texting each other!! people are reading more now than they ever have!!
and then kanye was like “i'm going to print out my tweets and sell them as a book” and i was like ah,
@coriander now we are at a point where people are claiming that tweets and powerpoint slides are objectively the best way to convey information and hmm no something has gone off here
@coriander but yeah no joke reading this article in 2018 was when i officially crossed the lines into “yeah we gotta address this literacy thing” https://www.theroot.com/kanyes-politics-are-what-happens-when-you-dont-read-books
@Lady @coriander "I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life"
OH NO