I suggest reading the linked article.
The EUA is interesting reading.
BUT, the most interesting part was the author’s attempt to assess why the information he easily found on the Internet had been so completely ignored. It was thought provoking, and could explain at least part of what has gone wrong in our country.
Yes. I think the number of people who simply “don’t read” has dramatically increased. And plenty of people who “do read” simply cannot read well.
Although I would suggest that, in part, the writing style of people like this article’s author may be to blame. His article contains a number of those academic sentences about the praxis of hermaneutic analysis combined with intransigent symbiotic methodologies which provide variable encumbrances to comprehension within the Sapir-Whorf linguistic worldview.
If you write like that, no one will actually pay attention.
I think there is little doubt that people nowadays are illiterate primitives compared to the people of a hundred years ago and earlier, before the age of electronic media.
People think they are so smart because they know how to use a cell phone, but their cell phone does most of their thinking for them.
There was no Facebook when William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Hamlet.
There was no Dot Net when Isaac Newton wrote The Principia.
And people actually read them.
y found on the Internet had been so completely ignored. It was thought provoking, and could explain at least part of what has gone wrong in our country.>>> As a hiring manager, there was once a candidate for a position that was hired not by me. He newly arrived at the office and wanted to sit down with me and go over my systems so he could understand what we did. (My job was to manage the systems that paid all of the Docs and hospitals for a major insurance company). Since i was very busy with system changes and mandates etc. i didn’t have the time to just sit and review my processes with the guy so i suggested he read our very thorough documentation on the main part of the system. and after that i suggested we get together and review, questions etc. He quit. My guess was he couldn’t read.
That's true of ALL important stories.
Trump's 1st impeachment involved what is referred to as "urgent concern." This has a statutory meaning in context, yet ZERO news reports, and ZERO Congress remarked on this. The ICIG report was out of his jurisdiction, obviously so, and the DOJ even produced a memo (also available in the internet) that explained.
Every single time I have done independent research on a subject that was of interest to me, I found what you note. An important point being completely ignored and usually substituted with something false or misleading.
No exception to this. None.