Throw us a friggin' bone here!

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_america_the_illiterate/

Wow, talk about a forward article. This seems like one of those articles that says things that you only think about but never really find a way to say it out loud. When i first started reading this I was kind of skeptical of what was to come. We live in a split America? I definitely could never have concluded what the article was going to be about just from the first sentence. There are some parts of this article that I feel may be a bit too rough but i understand what the author means by it. When speaking in class the other day, Professor Solbrig bought up a good point about many of us, the students, not reading textual words on a paper to inform ourselves. I can honestly say that I like to pick up a newspaper to take to work and then sit and read it at break but it is so much easier to do on the computer or to just watch CNN at any time of day and let some one TELL me the news rather than me have to read it. Does that make me less literate? Chris Hedges seems a bit upset; this seems more like an chance to vent than a formal article.

I think it is important for people to understand that we cannot all be alike and say "hey, its alright that other people to read menus anymore and just order the bigmac from the picture thats up"..... or something like that. Let's read this article but also keep our own stance on the matter. Whichever way you can inform yourself, literate or illiterate, its better than nothing.