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minus-squareNougatlinkfedilink6•1 year ago … willful idiots we had this time … Oh, there were plenty of those in 1918, too.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoIt’s a lot harder to be ignorant today. There’s so much knowledge everywhere, and literacy rates are really high.
minus-squareVenia SilentelinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year ago It’s a lot harder to be ignorant today. Florida people: “That sounds like a challenge.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoCounterpoint: it’s actually not that hard, because of echo chambers and the algorithms pushing/feeding those echo chambers. Just because people are actually able to read and write more nowadays doesn’t mean critical thinking has improved a lot too.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThat’s very true! In the Age of Misinformation, basic literacy isn’t enough to learn.
Oh, there were plenty of those in 1918, too.
It’s a lot harder to be ignorant today. There’s so much knowledge everywhere, and literacy rates are really high.
Florida people: “That sounds like a challenge.”
Counterpoint: it’s actually not that hard, because of echo chambers and the algorithms pushing/feeding those echo chambers. Just because people are actually able to read and write more nowadays doesn’t mean critical thinking has improved a lot too.
That’s very true!
In the Age of Misinformation, basic literacy isn’t enough to learn.