This is a hard article for me to write. Mostly because I recently started unlearning reading and writing. You see, I’m part of a new movement sweeping the country that is rejecting literacy for the big-government conspiracy that it is. First they came for our privacy (#BirdsArentReal). Then they came for our democracy (#StopTheSteal). And now they’re coming for our bodies (#Scamdemic). But we missed the biggest hoax of all. When you stop to really think about it, it’s obvious: We’re all indoctrinated as children to read and write, making us dependent on newspapers, libraries, and the dictionary industry. The…
Author: David Mitchell
David Mitchell
David S. Mitchell is a Washington, DC-based professional who writes and performs stand-up on the side. He is not the prolific British novelist nor the British comedian of Peep Show fame. This David Mitchell's writing has appeared in Defenestration, The Hill, and the New York Daily News.