DippChip

| she/her | digital artist | occasionally posts shit |

[imshoen]

[kosmogrl]

[anti-parent]

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human histo

it's so interesting to me how literacy crisis rhetoric is so inseparable from white supremacy & eugenics. just the whole way people talk about it. decline of the western world, intellectual degeneracy, blah blah blah people just can't help themselves. and like i feel like the solutions to it are pretty damn straightforward but discussions never even get that far, it's just wailing and gnashing of teeth about how people are gambling and tiktoking now instead of reading charles dickens for fun.

[anti-parent]

oh noooo this education discipline is boring as shit & inaccessible to many & the young people engaging in it are never taken seriously as interpreters & creators of knowledge. we spent decades straight up not teaching kids how to read properly and blaming them when they inevitably fail. now there are technological developments that make the shitty assignments we've been relying on for decades an even bigger waste of time for everyone involved. we can't even articulate why things need to continue being taught this way without alluding to the bygone glory of the white race and we won't even fund schools but - what's this - the kids want to do something else instead??? how dare they.

[22degreehalo]

also like. Covid. Covid happened.

Remember when Covid happened? And we all said that nobody was taking post-viral symptoms seriously enough? And brain fog was one of the most well-documented symptoms of long Covid?

It sure is a lot more emotionally satisfying to blame the effects on your political enemies Rotting Kids' Brains though, huh.

[dogpuppy]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh I love moles

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

[briscal]

[fairycosmos]

[dogpuppy]

[drempen]

Had all his fingies out for No Reason

[eebie]

[eebie]

[elksewer]

oh oo ohhh ooo oh

[starbreak]

Illustrated a memory of playing classic version minecraft in browser back in 2009 where another player gave me a tour of their various builds, one of them being a grave dedicated to their father

[charl0ttan]

when spongebob and patrick and squidward and mister krab got their eyes all big and started breathing i didnt like it because i couldnt do that. i knew exactly how sandy felt. bad

[poopjournalist]

[venusswasaboy]

I quote this and laugh to myself very, very often.