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you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).
(ismatu.substack.com)
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In one breath the author tells us that people who don't want to read the article are the target demographic.
And then in the next 8000 breaths they proceed to use some of the most dense, obtuse, wandering, inappropriately poetic language for an essay I've seen outside of academia
I agree with nearly everything the author has to say and yet I think the essay is a complete and utter failure at even approaching the goals it claims to have.
Nobody who needs to read this will. Not because it's too long (though some will have that reason) but because anyone with moderate to poor literacy - the people explicitly called out as the target of the piece - won't be able to grok half the sentences, let alone an entire paragraph, without re-reading it 2, 3, maybe 4 times.
Unfortunate, because the message, and the information contained within the essay, is incredibly important for those people
Most of it sounded like a love poem to themselves. I was terribly unimpressed.
Understanding their target audience but not catering to that target audience means this is an article preaching to the choir. Most people literate enough to skim through and make sense of this are already aware of how uncommon deep literacy is.