@z428 In all seriousness I fully agree. That sort of gatekeeping/elitism is super harmful.
All the people who dragged signal and wanted people to use pgp and such crap. They weren’t interested in giving realistic solutions to real world people.
Counterpoint: An illiterate citizenry begets a monarchy. Politics is downstream of culture.
There's only so many books you can write with 100 words. And that works fine if a mystical priest-class keeps the calendar and everyone else just follows orders.
But for the hoi polloi to actually have **agency** in their own society, they just are HAVE to going to learn to read. And that's going to take a culture that's centered around (tech-)literacy being a necessity in the modern world.
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