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Unwittingly perhaps, Wolf’s research also showed that one of the surest strategies for amassing autocratic power is what I call deliberate deliteracy: the destruction, restriction, and monopolization of the infrastructures that make mass literacy possible.
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis Matt Seybold 2026
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"The very purpose of this series is to combat what I call the ‘deliteracy’ of current and common culture, i.e.- the active dumbing down of art and discourse. Nowadays, many magazines that used to interview people of substance and ideas would rather speak with the latest pop babe of the month, or the current politician whose garbage is grabbing the most headlines." (From Double-Tongued Dictionay)
June 9, 2008