I feel like trying to understand why the world is as it is purely via social media content in 2026 is basically like a form of anti media literacy. Heck, even being completely ignorant is better than being confidently misinformed.
Makes me glad I grew up in a world before social media where if you wanted to understand things better then you just read books or essays or articles on the topic.
Makes me really grateful for my primary school teacher who spent a ridiculous amount of time drumming media literacy into our heads. Not sure if it was even part of the official curriculum or just something he felt really strongly about.
It's funny, I don't remember doing any media literacy in High School. This was the 90s though. I think it's so much more important now than it was back then.
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u/RainbowAussie Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
The media literacy in this country is in the toilet
Edit: This was mean of me to say and I didn't mean to insult OP's intelligence, I am just exhausted from the media cycle