As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.

Y'all SEVERELY underestimate the work of rebuilding vs the ease of tearing down, you also only think your individual issues are the priorities, and this siloed, the-way-I-want-it-or-nothing costs us the long game every time.