Just read this on this news…..and my thoughts.
”Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book.

Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts.”

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

Watch the whole thing LMAO
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17dMdTwKw1/

The original Animal Farm was a warning about Stalinism. The 2026 remake made it about capitalism.
Orwell hated communists. Hollywood turned him into someone who hates corporations.
They didn’t adapt the book. They changed the entire narrative. The pigs would be proud. 🐷 Gotta love certain ppl such as Seth Rogan, smh.