Rose Horowitz
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
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Well, it's difficult to know exactly how much each factor plays into it.
I definitely don't think that it's just kids these days.
Yes.
As a member of Gen Z, I'm like, if it's kids these days, it's me.
But I think this is a story of technologies crowding out the time that people would have once spent reading books.
We know that when the television was first invented, American households were spending tons of time watching that.
Then obviously streaming, internet, smartphone, social media, you know, it all just takes up so much of our time now that might have previously been devoted to reading a book.
Yes, exactly.
So people often talk about this as a literacy crisis, and I don't think that that's right at all.
Our literacy rate is historically very high.
We are probably reading more words than ever with, like, social media and the number of emails you get for your job and text messages with friends and everything.
And so the difference is that we're almost, like, swimming in so much text that we just don't actually—
have the time or sort of attention to kind of focus on for an extended period on, you know, a rich or complex work because we are just, our attention is turning to so many different things.
And so that's why I called it really a post-literate age instead of an illiterate age.
Right.
So what I was trying to get across is that, you know, reading is not just one mode of communication or one skill among many.
When reading and writing first appeared about 6,000 years ago, it transformed society and it changed the way people thought and politics and culture.
And so I was trying to get across that I think that we're living through a civilizational shift.
on that scale where we're going to see changes in our consciousness, changes in the candidates we elect, and what our culture values, and even how we tell the story of our civilization.
So that was sort of what I was trying to get across by post-literate, that we can still read, but it's an age where text is just not the kind of medium that we use to spread information or knowledge or culture or entertainment, and that that will have really far-reaching effects.
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