[CanYoAssDigIt] Why can't Americans read?

Why can't people read? If people weren't so stupid, they would know
why - I have explained it in my groundbreaking work, establishing that
every 18 months, people are half as smart.

Sometime around the middle of 2007, best evidence is that 60 million
Americans will no longer be able to read. Some of them will be us, so
enjoy it while you can. Assuming you can.

WHO WILL TELL THE PEOPLE?

By Sheila Samples
01/28/2006 10:18:38 PM EST
Keywords: Mike Malloy, 1984, Air America
By Sheila Samples

And who will tell the people
that free speech is a ruse;
The corporations run the country
and then they make the news.
Is it media or mind control
heroic victories or crime?
Who will tell the people...
that we are living in these times.
~Song by Willie Nelson

In his essay on "Character" Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "A chief event
in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled
us." I've had such days, many of them through encounters with Emerson
himself, but never have I been startled or even remotely surprised by
anything belched out by the Barbie and Ken assembly line of today's
corporate mind-control media.

George Orwell wrote that people who neither read nor ask questions
will ultimately lose all desire to question "Big Brother." What is so
frightening as we descend into the new world order fascism is not that
we no longer read -- it's that we no longer can read.

Researchers estimate as many as 30 million Americans -- many of them
college graduates -- cannot read. They're unable to comprehend news
stories or even instructions. They said they were "stunned," but could
offer no explanation for the steep drop in literacy. I don't know
what's more depressing -- that Americans can't read or, after studying
the phenomenon, researchers lack the critical skills to discern why.

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