>>24558658Complex information and feelings that can only be summarized and expressed in 300+ printed pages. There's no going around this. Learn how to deal with lengthy blocks of words. That's literally your best and only way, as a human, to present and understand complex information about anything.
And no, video essays or lectures won't have the same impact on you, if only for the fact that you are just passively receiving someone's words and can space out at will. Reading requires your full attention, which means you will retain and understand complex information better than you would by just listening to someone speaking.
I am purposedly turning this into a longpost now because I think you should honestly worried about how large the potential for royally fucking a non-reading generation in the ass is. Someone who isn't capable to process complex information also loses any ability to distinguish between reliable and non-reliable information, which means you become most vulnerable to any sort of proapaganda - a modern version of a medieval illiterate farmer, ready to believe whatever the local priest says (only there's now 1000 local priests at war with each other).
You can literally measure how much the level of public discourse has gets lowered in passing from expert discussion to the newspaper form (from books to articles) and then from articles to the popularized talk show format, where politicians make vague and inarticulate points simplifying complex issues - the ultimate form of which are the US presidential debates, in which the illiterate voters of an illiterate country choose who is going to rule the world based on 1h of banter between geriatric billionaires.
The idea that complex information can be simplified is an illusion and a trap, and falling for it in a reality where the state made libraries free for everyone and you can download books from the internet is inexcusable, and the ultimate victory of evil over good.
Your inability to understand what is going on has been groomed since birth, through television and now phones. This is to keep you at your workpost until you die, and extract as much energy and value from you as possible while giving you the bare minimum. You NEED the ability to process complex chunks information not in order to change the world and make a revolution, but because you don't want to be sodomized on a daily basis by people who are more powerful than you are.
You need to be able to spend 30+ hours reading books about any political subject before being able to BEGIN forming a nuanced opinion on it. The rest is you parroting youtube videos - and it will show: not only in how you speak, but also in how you vote, in the political action you will or will not take, in the amount of change you'll be able to introduce in your life and that of your family and your community, and ultimately in how hard you are getting fucked in the ass.