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@alex@dair-community.social My own "mental model of how [myself] think the world works" meets the following with friction sufficient to raise the temperature in the room: "You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether." Myself had that impression over a quarter century ago, only to have it brought home painfully a decade and a half ago. Folk really are wanting to blame the latest technology for a tendency that preceded and ploughed the soil for the cultivation of same. Reading was already too much friction for my anthropology grad school cohort, and already too much friction for my dotcom industry colleagues a decade before that. Students already "could shunt some of that work to" published academic study tools, "reading" strategies that obviated the requirement that one engage with a whole text, and even prefigurative (in the sense of Ricœur) prior knowledge and expectation, well before a software industrial complex entered the mix as a culmination of the praxis which preceded it. 2/4