Humans have a long, deep and broad history of being told and shown stuff, whether epic poetry, puppet shows, political oratory, etc., whereas access to written

Humans have a long, deep and broad history of being told and shown stuff, whether epic poetry, puppet shows, political oratory, etc., whereas access to written materials was almost always sharply limited. Relatively widespread, relatively free access to reading materials is recent and patchy. Across all that, we’ve also always had classes lifted by access to written materials and those that carried the weight. The essay that brought this together for me was posted a few months ago. Scariest damn thing I’ve ever read. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311662