X-Message-Number: 15418
From: 
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:52:20 EST
Subject: Re: Literacy is Unnatural

In a message dated 1/22/01 4:05:33 AM Central Standard Time, 
 writes:

<< 
 All too much attention has been given the last few thousand
 years to "literacy", with all of its obvious defects.  Basically,
 it's just another one of those linear, outmoded, left-brained
 vestiges of traditional hierarchical oppressive Western civilization
 which we must discard.  Besides, learning to read is artificial
 and UNNATURAL.  Moreover, it requires a lot of unpleasant effort.
 Forcing children to learn to read needs to be unmasked as the child
 abuse that it is, >>

  Absolutely right, Lee. You'll be happy to know that the public school 
system is way ahead of you here; I just finished a stint of pretending to 
teach 9th grade science, and out of 125 students, only 5 were contaminated 
with traditional literacy. Math abilities are not natural, either, of course, 
and most of the students cannot multiply two-digit numbers or fractions. 
Unfortunately the majority of the students can add and subtract, but they 
never know whether their answers are the right order of magnitude, so this 
ability has no practical effect on them. So we can rest assured that the 
students' brains are in a completely natural state, filled exclusively with 
memes from TV ads, just like their neolithic ancestors.

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