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> This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years. i assume this is sarcasm, as society has historically been mostly
by kmlx 7y ago
> This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years.
i assume this is sarcasm, as society has historically been mostly illiterate and unschooled.
right now is when we are the most informed in the history of humankind.
- kmlx 7y agofor people downvoting, the great "schooling of society" started in the 1940s-50s: https://ourworldindata.org/literacy https://ourworldindata.org/literacy till then most people around the world didn't know how to read and write. my own eastern european country had an illiteracy rate of 95% in 1920.