They want an illiterate servant underclass so badly
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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i like the idea that learning how to read, write, operate a manual transmission vehicle, or look up physical reference materials that have not been digitally archived is somehow exclusive and prevents one from learning the latest, most widely accessible and deskilled version of everything. like yeah, i know how to walk into a small town's public library and find newspaper clippings from a now-defunct newspaper that folded in the 1980s. now i'll never know how to type words into a browser.
like if you learn how to read, you won't even understand audiobooks. if you learn how to operate an old vehicle, you can't possibly operate a golf cart.
If you know how to read and write you won't dictate prompts to your phone.
I love my physical books because they are immutable. It makes me happy that the text I am reading has remained unchanged for as long as the book has existed.
These people are idiots. You can read faster than you can listen to spoken word. Reading isn't going anywhere.
What will stop though, hopefully, is anyone reading the value-free words of these gormless fuckers.
Gormless really is the word. There is a crisis of gormlessness today
Releasing podcast without a transcript should result in paddlin'
What an interesting idea. That you have just communicated. Using. The written word. To people. Who. READ.
Making a video by filming myself coming up with the script
What, you want children to grow up being able to maintain a line of thought for more than three seconds? How... rustic 😏
Kids don't know the Dewey decimal system? What?
This fundamental tool of civilization is just like this (only somewhat) outdated tool used by a specific profession.
Dewey isn't even used by all libraries, but library use/accessibility never was very good in the states anyway. Kind of pointless to learn the sorting method in your secondary school library that has nothing useful in it
What does it even mean to know an indexing system?
An index is useful because I don't need to remember that 802.11 or whatever is biographies of anarchists, I can just go look it up
IEEE 802.11 is the standard for WiFi, guess that's your daily Wrong on the internet post? But check this out:
3xx - Social Sciences
33x - Economics
335 - Socialism and Related Systems
335.83 - Anarchism
At the very least, everyone should learn the first digit groups in school:
All I remember about the Dewey decimal system is that I had to walk across the building and onto another floor if I was looking for a book about a Black American (300s, social sciences) or White American (900s, history)
Edit - I just looked up 335 - Socialism and Related Systems:
335 - Socialism and Related Systems
335.6 - Fascism
Yikes
omg you absolutely deweyed on that user
I mean that one like all pre-computer-library systems is just honestly fairly obsolete. Half of it's job was that you'd have a starting point to skip over a few thousand reference cards to get where you wanted, which is hilariously easier to do on a computer without even getting all that fancy with it.
Dewey decimal system
Holy fucking shit I didn't. Now I do! Cool stuff.
Yes because it sucks
I'll believe it when I see them demonstrating the ability to extract specific pieces of information from an informational video in a comparable amount of time as an indexed informational text.
Half the TikTok’s I have seen are text over somebodies annoying face.
hey @gork, can you make me a video of this thread with audio transcription and dancing fractals to keep my attention?
oh no I just used reading and writing, I'm so cursed by the past and path-dependency
Thankfully this is a minority that only the most brain broken of tech bros will follow.
Who are these people? Are they doing a bit? If they're sincere, can we make them go away?