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AMA | October 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is Literacy an Overwhelming Good?

LZ Granderson: Literacy is not an unalloyed good, necessarily. But I think that literacy is an overwhelming good. Maybe it has made us lead toward being reductionist, he says. LZ: How do you balance these things? Is it worth it overall if you have some disadvantages and some advantages? "I'm going to say that literacy is overwhelmingly advantageous"

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