Investor Alsop: mass literacy was a historical blip; reading may become aristocratic again
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-05
Investor Stewart Alsop III argues that those lamenting a coming 'idiocracy' ignore history: for millennia reading and writing were confined to a tiny elite, and mass literacy is just a blip on the historical record. He predicts reading will again be labeled 'a thing aristocrats do,' though possibly a more meritocratic version if people choose to develop their minds and escape what he calls the false simulation.
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