{"id":65,"date":"2017-01-23T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2017-01-23T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:38:05","slug":"the-continued-toleration-of-illiteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/remediary0com\/2017\/01\/23\/the-continued-toleration-of-illiteracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Continued Toleration of Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have written about the widespread pandemic of illiteracy for many years, and I find it odd that there has continued to be an attitude of toleration to the phenomenon \u2013 even among people who I consider to be quite literate.<\/h3>\n
This has bugged me incessantly, and I have puzzled time and again, but have never been able to figure out why there continues to be such widespread resistance to the promotion of literacy.<\/h3>\n
The relatively obvious situation that many organizations have been able to reap great profits from duping illiterate suckers and thereby emptying their pockets can hardly be \u201ebreaking news\u201c any more. Modern propaganda methods were perhaps first developed at the turn of the Twentieth Century, they were exploited on a grand scale in the Third Reich \u2013 but it was truly the Americans who \u201eperfected<\/i>\u201c it and turned into a science.<\/h3>\n
For many decades, the \u201eAmerican Way of Life\u201c has been associated with progress, wealth and economic development. When the shady details of the mortgage-backed securities crisis started becoming more and more obvious, when people started protesting that they had been duped into debt, then this movement was silenced in short shrift. The message was loud<\/b> and clear<\/b>: \u201cShut up, slaves<\/i>!\u201d<\/h3>\n
You might think that might have been a wake-up call. Nada.<\/h3>\n
Now, or rather recently, there has been another tell-tale sign screaming out of the sinful modern media: The \u201cFake News\u201d crisis. Will this, too, be swept under the carpet? I think this hypothesis might not be as far-fetched as it might sound to some.<\/h3>\n
The puzzling evidence won’t go away, though, and it continues to nag me. The other day an idea occurred to me that might help explain some<\/i> of it, but so far it’s still just a wild guess \u2013 and I think I need to think it through some more before I might feel OK with actually putting the idea \u201cout there\u201d. I don’t need to explain all<\/i> of it, but I do think I want to feel as though it’s no just a random thought-bubble.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"