Nicked from nihilistic_kid

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Economist looks at past moral panics and notes some striking patterns.

The memetic prophylactic recommended warning is for some of the comments.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

High levels of literacy was considered a symptom of the End Times of the day?

[(Anonymous)]

The Romans were constantly worrying that the martial virtue that formed Rome was being undermined by the soft intellectualism of the Greeks.
-- NPH

[liabrown]

Maybe he saw it as a sign of narcissism and self-indulgence.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Whether it's your theory or that of "NPH" that rules the day, it seems horrific that possessing literacy skills should ever be considered a threat to one's own nation.