Some shit about written language. Cuneiform. Rewatch that extra credit video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hyper literacy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
i love to be a whiny grumpy lil bitch in real life; i can do it in a charming and fun way that people enjoy. but you rarely ever see me doing this online in plaintext, because i know that people will not read it the way it was written<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plaintext: <\/strong>One of the funny quirks of the widespread proliferation of plaintext is changing norms about formality\u2026 what I want to say is how we have to learn not to take people seriously. Shitposting vs play fighting <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n plaintext literacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n the word illiterate has some negative connotations in my mind. In the past, I witnessed it being used dismissively, like you\u2019re less of a person if you can\u2019t read. Tends to be associated with the poor, the social underclass, inferiors. Which is funny because I\u2019ve met people who are well-off who, in my view, don\u2019t seem to be able to read. Or maybe they don\u2019t have to. Maybe deep literacy is in some ways the opposite of a luxury, it\u2019s something you have to do when you\u2019re desperate to know and understand things. I\u2019m here to help people who can read. I don\u2019t really have the patience, inclination, skillset, to teach people how to read. There are other people who have that. If you can\u2019t read, go to someone who can teach you how to read, then read my stuff. But does that even need saying? If you can\u2019t read, why would you be here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s the thing. If you\u2019re truly, completely, literally illiterate in the absolute sense, you\u2019re kind of safe. I know there are some old quotes about this from even hundreds of years ago, something about how a little learning\/knowledge is a dangerous thing. (Alexander Pope) “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke \/ “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain \/ “It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.” – Richard Baxter<\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem is that there are many people in the world who think they are smart, who think they know what they\u2019re talking about. And as I write this down I recognize immediately that I myself am almost certainly guilty. From my frame of reference, within my universe, my own ignorance, illiteracy, misunderstandings, cowardice, etc hurt me more than anybody else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some shit about written language. Cuneiform. Rewatch that extra credit video. Hyper literacy \u2731 i love to be a whiny grumpy lil bitch in real life; i can do it in a charming and fun way that people enjoy. but you rarely ever see me doing this online in plaintext,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[727],"tags":[737],"class_list":["post-13697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts","tag-ios-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3yV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13698,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions\/13698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}