A Boring Dystopia

Sorry, humor translates badly on the internet, same as sarcasm 🤷. And that i instantly thought that you weren't able to understand me because of educational issues makes it even worse... because the probabilities were in my favor. I wish it weren't so, but functional analphabetism is RAMPANT in the US, and that was before the Trump admin started demolishing everything that could be interpreted as intellectual.

I am personally happy for you that this situation is not something that hurts you directly, but in my (limited) experience it makes a lot of sense to provide people with enough information to be angry about the status quo, because the might never arrive at it if they were left on their own.

• About 70% of adults in the U.S. prison system read at or below the fourth-grade level, according to the 2003 National Adult Literacy Survey, noting that a "link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure."[9]
• 85% of US juvenile inmates are functionally illiterate.[8]
• 43% of adults at the lowest level of literacy lived below the poverty line, as opposed to 4% of those with the highest levels of literacy.[8]