/lit/ - Literature

>>21740193
morals are one of the most fundamental things in philosophy though?
>>21741305
the point is comparing the educated to each other why would you compare a group of people that never read nor had any need to read with a group that reads everyday of their lives? Thats skewing the stats and its detrimental if you want to actually see which education system worked better. The people who couldn't read weren't running society and participating in public discourse on a national level. That burden fell to the educated that could read, however small a % that may have been. Just like today we don't have the mentally handicapped in administrative roles.
And it's truly insane to see that somehow it's become a right wing political position to think society is collapsing. Holy shit that doesn't bode well.