I don't know about the able-to-read part. I am wondering if people are still getting the basic skills in school. For instance, I was told by a headhunter that a resumé must state its case in the first 25 words or less, because the reader (a person in lower management) won't read further than that. (The old standard was 100 words; but that was a couple of generations ago.) Now, Mr. Trevelyan seems to be a snob who thinks some intellectual authority knows what is worth reading in a universal sense, but most people probably know what is worth reading _to_them_ in the immediate case, like the resumé reader trying to find the best candidate for a particular job. If they find mere reading to be laborious, they are going to have a hard time accomplishing that end. More abstract and theoretical stuff is going to be beyond them. I am not the only one who has noticed this.
Everyone can 3D render and print as many false coins as they like, naturally, and everyone will engage in such moral exhibitionism anyway.
However, the Western cultural matrix and its essential pathologies aren't going away as long as "reformers" keep worshipping the bath water and trying to filter incremental babies out of it. Indeed, without the ability to simply walk out of Mordor, the process of exiting judgment seems to depend on the same sort of duplicity that trapped us in it in the first place. Still working through the consequences of that.
"Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." ~George Trevelyan
I don't know about the able-to-read part. I am wondering if people are still getting the basic skills in school. For instance, I was told by a headhunter that a resumé must state its case in the first 25 words or less, because the reader (a person in lower management) won't read further than that. (The old standard was 100 words; but that was a couple of generations ago.) Now, Mr. Trevelyan seems to be a snob who thinks some intellectual authority knows what is worth reading in a universal sense, but most people probably know what is worth reading _to_them_ in the immediate case, like the resumé reader trying to find the best candidate for a particular job. If they find mere reading to be laborious, they are going to have a hard time accomplishing that end. More abstract and theoretical stuff is going to be beyond them. I am not the only one who has noticed this.
jamenta loves the British system of totalitarian slavery, remember.
No, it's just that values and virtues are lies and none of that is worth participating in or upholding.
We can't communicate about our experiences of evaluation?
Everyone can 3D render and print as many false coins as they like, naturally, and everyone will engage in such moral exhibitionism anyway.
However, the Western cultural matrix and its essential pathologies aren't going away as long as "reformers" keep worshipping the bath water and trying to filter incremental babies out of it. Indeed, without the ability to simply walk out of Mordor, the process of exiting judgment seems to depend on the same sort of duplicity that trapped us in it in the first place. Still working through the consequences of that.