Reposted by Anne Shields
'as reading declines and more people turn to videos for political information, the literate culture that sustained sophisticated argument and rational debate is crumbling.'
Worth contextualising with 18th-c upper-class horror at the advent of reading by working-class readers (esp. women). 1/2
thetimes.com
The death of reading puts the world in a perilous place
Books and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy