you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).
The reason you hate reading is because the ruling class benefits from illiteracy.
Not total illiteracy, mind you. That’s bad for business. The ruling class (law and policy makers, oligarch businessmen, celebrity, hedge fund managers buying up single-family housing, etc.) want you literate enough to be able to work for them, but not so literate that you realize how badly the working class gets fucked over in this world-making. Read enough to be able to consume and to execute, not to consider critically, certainly not enough to create. Because then what? A mass of people realizing we can create and recreate everything we see and touch to something kinder for us?
Ghastly. Absolutely not.Please go read or listen to Ismatu Gwendolyn’s essay.