POST LITERATE SOCIETY

We are living in a post literate society. This mean that the masses of the people no longer aspire to be literate. To be literate is to be able to read symbols called letters and words with comprehension. This society has decided to communicate visually and through audio works. This is why video logs and talk radio has over taken the written blog. We never had a hundred percent literacy rate, but to be literate was to be a person who was admired. The readers were expected to be the thinkers and were sought out for advice. Readers and thinkers are ignored now. People even criticize us for reading too much. This is a sad new paradigm that we find ourselves in. I try to make videos where I read to people and give them analysis of literary works. I also read from my journal to share ideas. This is all in jeopardy because it does not provide enough resources for me sustain myself. Survival for my kind may not be possible. In a post literate society writers are expendable. If I am to be extinct I have made my peace with the world and face my death with the same courage that I faced my birth.