"Journalist Mary Harrington argued that “thinking is becoming a luxury good.”
The ability to read deeply and reason at length is fragmenting along class lines as ultra-processed digital media replaces text… much as ultra-processed food has replaced cooking."
LINK: archive.ph/2026.06.06-1...
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow."
The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society.
www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
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The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
