I’m pretty sure old-school reading is just over. When people have a long article or even a book to read they’re just going to ask ChatGPT to bullet point it for them anyways. I already see this happening. The problem is that reading had important neurological and psychological effects that were upstream from democratic society and politics in general. We are going back to premodern oral culture.

back to the dialogue form, as the old masters intended. Reading a book unattended as we do now would be pretty unusual for Plato or Socrate as they thought any transmission of knowledge should also tightly control how the recipient makes sense of it, hence their focus on dialogues.