11-27-2012, 04:39 PM
Short answer, AJ: YES!
That's partly why we're so big on feedback -- reading poetry is a really good way to improve your critical literacy skills and those are skills that can be adapted to almost every other area of life. The same methods of decoding can and should be used to critically evaluate everything we read -- but of course that would totally screw up the media and the advertising world, which as we all know runs just about everything in the universe
It absolutely IS a wider problem for society (the popularity of reality TV shows us that). A discerning populace is not what governments and corporations desire. Keep 'em dumb, throw 'em crumbs and watch them beg for more.
That's partly why we're so big on feedback -- reading poetry is a really good way to improve your critical literacy skills and those are skills that can be adapted to almost every other area of life. The same methods of decoding can and should be used to critically evaluate everything we read -- but of course that would totally screw up the media and the advertising world, which as we all know runs just about everything in the universe
It absolutely IS a wider problem for society (the popularity of reality TV shows us that). A discerning populace is not what governments and corporations desire. Keep 'em dumb, throw 'em crumbs and watch them beg for more.
It could be worse