Monday, April 15, 2024

Being Explicit: Literacy is a Myth

 It is often opined that literacy is a mistake. This is, of course, the thought of an illiterate. Mass literacy doesn't exist. Doesn't occur. Their thoughts and writing are in shambles because it's all fake. They sound like parrots because they are, in fact, parrots. Only more sophisticated than birdbrains in the elaboration of the facade.

 Recall that free speech is a myth. The first kind of speech one needs to secure is the ability to speak meaningfully at all. 

 The needful is subsidized silence. In practice what's wrong with free illiteracy is the failure to distinguish literates and illiterates. There should be a browser extension that says [illiteracy off] and simply prevents html from illiterate sources from being rendered. Such ""speech"" is pollution and literates need pollution control.

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