>>6719553>dumbed down>not realizing that has always been the caseFor thousands of years the only ones who had access to reading and writing were a very small percentage of the population.
In Ancient Egypt, only nobility or scribes knew how to depicher Hieroglyphics. In China, only scholars studied for a civil law exam and eunuchs knew. Wanted to be an intellectual back then? Hope you were in the right class in society, and maybe your rich uncle will get in you the privilege to learn through nepotism
Most people were usually servants who worked the farm and didn't learn shit and only met each other in church. Took the internet for even random plebs like us to even have access to things we have know.
