Thanks to madinmd for sending me this.
Posted on Nov 10, 2008
"We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture."
Read the entire column at Truthdig
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_america_the_illiterate/
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