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We have stopped READING - is it a sign our civilisation is COLLAPSING? With James Marriott
In the past 2 decades literacy rates have dropped dramatically... and so have our IQ scores.
Writer James Marriott believes these two facts are connected. His Substack article, "The dawn of the post-literate society and the end of civilisation," in which he argues that the absence of reading might signify the end of our civilisation, caused a big stir online...
In this conversation we talk about the history of reading, why this immense transfer of knowledge led to the breakdown of feudal society (while making us smarter), but also about how smartphones are fracturing our political systems…
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