Y'know... I've been thinking. Thinking hard. And I don't particularly enjoy that sort of thing. But I'm feeling really pretty brave today, so here goes: It would just be better to not have to read or write at all. It's so tedious, and scary, the very act of making this comment. However, I'm a charitable guy, I guess. Budgetarily? We would be cutting out a heck of a lot of tax costs by not teaching children to read in schools. A huge chunk of elementary school. Children could learn work sooner, which will make more money. And then no need for libraries at all (more savings!). Besides, there's a LOT of words to read available in Amazon book preview jaypegs, if you look for them. No one will say it, but bookfires' warmth could of course liberate europe from russian natural gas dependency in the wintertime. Parents already know how to read. Parents can teach their kids reading at night, when they're not working (if they choose; that is freedom). If a family is virtuous enough, the kids might even get better at reading in comparison to broken family kids. Which might be bad, I'm not sure. Pictures are so much better, and movies are made of pictures, so I say we just do mostly movies. The movies should not be based on old books, unless they're comic books, which are mostly pictures. Some comic books though aren't probably what's best for Western values, is what the analysis shows, so I think maybe forget about comics as well. My God, I am so uncomfortable already with all this controversy, so I am posting this essay anonymously, hoping for no punishment. I wouldn't be worrying if I wasn't this burdened with stupid education, things need to change. Hopefully no one has to read this. They FOR A FACT would NOT, if they could not read.
You're onto a good start, fellow neoreactionary, but not nearly efficient enough. For Europe, which is best understood through pictures, you've missed the key word: specialization. Build enclaves of people, and use literate ones to proselytize and pray, so that the rest can work and fight.
That is so smart! Never been done before, that I know of. Very likely the missing secret to building the most possible utopian society. How long do you think it could take to unlearn reading? I think maybe not quite as long as it took to learn. Two years, I bet. It's worth investing that, easy. I didn't know Europe had pictures, but I know that pictures were invented in America... Have the patents been stolen?? Or if you mean it was some Americans taking pictures while inside Europe defeating it, that would be OK with me. Update: For my podcast, I record myself reading my favorite am_U (me) quotes to Siri for my hourly show, and while I was listening to me on the subject of books and reading today I realized that people could also understand me a little to well when I am talking verbally. I started getting nervous. Is language itself the bigger problem?