#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 23: What's a facet of the modern era of writing for which you're thankful?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 23: What's a facet of the modern era of writing for which you're thankful?
Everyone else is yelling about word processors or electricity, but what *I'm* grateful for is mass literacy. It's only really been a thing since the 17th century at the earliest (and more realistically the late 19th century), it's a fragile, tenuous thing, and without it the modern era of writing couldn't exist.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 23: What's a facet of the modern era of writing for which you're thankful?
Everyone else is yelling about word processors or electricity, but what *I'm* grateful for is mass literacy. It's only really been a thing since the 17th century at the earliest (and more realistically the late 19th century), it's a fragile, tenuous thing, and without it the modern era of writing couldn't exist.
@cstross and the billionaires are doing their level best to reverse that.
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@cstross and the billionaires are doing their level best to reverse that.
@emma There's always some assclown sitting as far out on the tree branch as they can, busily sawing away at the trunk …
