From High Literacy to Dumb Phones: The Resilient Remnant

If you go back to the founding of this country, we had I think it was a 98 or 99% literacy rate. You would go to pubs and and and places and people would yes, they'd sit there with their hard cider, first thing in the morning, but they'd be having deep conversations about humanities and philosophy and government, but a 99% literacy rate. Yeah. Um, I am encouraged though. I mean, I am encouraged a little bit about these reports of like the younger generation now that's coming up. They don't want smartphones, they want dumb phones. They're buying flip phones. They don't want to have an iPhone or an Android device anymore. Um, and they see what's happening. Um, even teenagers, my daughter the other day said, she said something about screenagers. And I said, I've never even heard this term before. She said, you never heard the term screenager? I said, what's that? She said, come on, Daddy. I'm like, what? I don't know. And she's like, no, it's just like the teenagers are just always on their screen and not and, you know, and so she they know like colloquially like in that group that that's ...