weilawei, 17 days ago

@StillIRise1963 American "culture" celebrates illiteracy and lack of education. I'm not even talking about formal education necessarily: just appearing like you might have a clue what's going on was enough to have a really rough childhood before, and I can't imagine it's any better now.

Then people who grew up in this environment continue to propagate it as adults, and here we are with more than half of our adult population being illiterate and uninformed about their world.

meltedcheese, 17 days ago

@StillIRise1963 In my experience, Mastodon has not matched other social media in this respect. Maybe I’m just lucky with my follows, but for the most part I am happy with the level of discourse. That said, you are right about other social media and the US.

StillIRise1963, 17 days ago

@meltedcheese Same in my experience. This is a different world. And, it’s exactly why I don’t want this to be like Twitter was.

Aviva_Gary, 17 days ago

@StillIRise1963 it's like those TV spots when they ask a rando person on the street a random fact we should all know and they don't know it...

Those were supposed to be funny... I always found them scary 😬

They walk among us...

StillIRise1963, 17 days ago

@Aviva_Gary When I thought they were rare, it was shockingly funny. Now you know most people don’t know and yeah, it’s really fucking scary.

sumisu3, 17 days ago

@StillIRise1963 the fundamental problem is that many are against being literate, and against being intelligent, and against critical thinking skills.

StillIRise1963, 17 days ago

@sumisu3 Because their masters told them to be. White people are the only ones who don’t know they have masters.