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• 05 Sep 16
  

  viplavam

  u s education chrishedges

• 01 Sep 16
  

  Gary Schreiner
• 06 Sep 09
  
• 06 Aug 09
  

  infora dime

  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

  anti-intellectualism disinformation propaganda rightwing exploit ignorance

• 25 Jul 09
  

  Mare BV

  usa culture values politics modernity

• 24 Feb 09
  

  lanselius

  US illiterate advertising media Chris Hedges

• 18 Nov 08
  

  Michael Massing

  '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...the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This Ame

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• 15 Nov 08
  

  literacy statistics quotes

• 13 Nov 08
  

  Mike Carr

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  Maggie Wolfe Riley

  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. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.
  

  politics education thought information

• 10 Nov 08
  

  dalehagglund

  "[T]oday’s political rhetoric is designed to be comprehensible to a 10-year-old child or an adult with a sixth-grade reading level. It is fitted to this level of comprehension because most Americans speak, think and are entertained at this level." Chris

  literacy literate us politics world chris hedges

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