Comment on Do you think that there may be random internet posts from today that in the future may be seen on the same level as Plato or other great philosophers?

• merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  but we know that too few people used to be literate. I couldn’t understand the need to disagree with this, i thought i misunderstood what you wrote.

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  • FelipeFelop@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s actually a bit of an ‘urban myth’ it did apply in eg Victorian Times but at other points in history there was widespread literacy.

    What you do find at some times is that an elite wrote and spoke one language but everyone else wrote another. Which was a way of controlling access to information. This is one reason that the Bible was in Latin and there was subterfuge needed to get the first Bible in English. (The pages were smuggled into the country)

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    • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      can you give some sources?

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      • FelipeFelop@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item101093.html#:~:te….

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