The dawn of the post-literate society
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The dawn of the post-literate society
It has never been clearer to me that what we are experiencing are the effects of a post-literate society, one ruled by those who do not read
Dylan O'Sullivansubstack.comUltra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
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As she spoke, I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It’s a spiral—as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that, in turn, made us less likely to read books.