{"id":22095,"date":"2025-10-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=22095"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:32:15","slug":"they-squashed-a-generation-of-readers-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/they-squashed-a-generation-of-readers-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"They squashed a generation of readers\u2026 on purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ynCVmw5AWk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of the scariest and most horrifying videos I&#8217;ve seen on YouTube in a while. The first time I watched it was outrage-inducing enough, but then I watched it a second time, and wow. Our education system isn&#8217;t broken, it&#8217;s functioning <em>exactly<\/em> as the elites intended. And that is why so many millennials and zoomers can&#8217;t read, can&#8217;t write\u2026 and honestly, can&#8217;t even <em>think.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is well worth an hour of your time. Possibly two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the scariest and most horrifying videos I&#8217;ve seen on YouTube in a while. The first time I watched it was outrage-inducing enough, but then I watched it a second time, and wow. Our education system isn&#8217;t broken, it&#8217;s functioning exactly as the elites intended. And that is why so many millennials&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/they-squashed-a-generation-of-readers-on-purpose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They squashed a generation of readers\u2026 on purpose<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1987,1956,1794,1954,829,232],"class_list":["post-22095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-hilary-layne","tag-long-form-podcasts","tag-the-second-story","tag-why-we-read","tag-why-we-write","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5Kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22151,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095\/revisions\/22151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}