Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?
Vox Open Sourced
JUNE 24, 2025
The very act of reading trains the mind in the arts of abstraction: Text conjures a voice that speaks inside the reader’s head rather than through her ears, prompting her to detach from sensory experience and turn attention inward. Literacy did not just enable abstract thought but inherently inspired it, according to Ong and his acolytes.
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