Text is king - by Adam Mastroianni - Experimental History

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Text is king read on, queen Adam Mastroianni Jan 20, 2026 1,640 140 486 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -19:20 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. photo cred: my dad The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered our attention spans and extinguished our taste for text. Books are disappearing from our culture, and so are our capacities for complex and rational thought. We are careening toward a post-literate society, where myth, intuition, and emotion replace logic, e

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