How many citizens actually read about the law, rights, philosophy, etc of their own country?

[IvoryBlackBishop]

Sadly lately, my honest albeit cynical belief, as per "wisdom of the crowd", and the abundance of inane opinions, assertions, and sensationalisms in mass media and social media, is that most people, at least in America, the UK, Canada and other English-speaking countries are generally too lazy, selfish, immoral, or even unintelligent to even so much as read up on the bare basics of the law, and legal and moral philosophy of their own country, state, city, or otherwise.

(As an example off the top of my head, I recall seeing an article which claimed that "self-defense is now illegal in the UK, but this is false; in the Uk, regulations on usage of weapons are stricter than in the US, but "self-defense" is a protected legal right).

This could be in part because the "average" American, Briton, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, never learns to read or write at anything above and beyond the bare basic 6th grade level, which is what most K-12 and 4-year college education, as well as most mass media is marketed to begin with, much of it being archaic holdovers from the 19th century, just as much of the mass media (such as pop-science propaganda a la, Bill Nye show and others) is not only marketed to that 6th grade reading level, but is predicated on archaic holdovers, trivium, and methodologies from the 19th century, which are already outdated in the contemporary sciences as it is, as per authors such as physicist Fritjof Capra, and others.

It's honest gotten the point that I wouldn't be shocked if 90-99% of mass media, regardless of its content or subject matter (political, religious, news, opinion, etc) would literally be out of business if the average person had an IQ above 100, or a reading level beyond the bare minimum 6th grade.

Every 1st world, common law country has plenty of local libraries, law libraries, as well as online libraries and sources of reading and learning readily available (such as Kindle e-readers, audiobook services like Audible online library projects like Gutenberg and OpenLibrary), which every millennial, Gen-X, or Boomer who hasn't been living in a cave since at least 2003 and the dawn of the new Information Age would be more than aware of to begin with.

My honest opinion lately, as cynically as it is, is that most people are just to selfish, lazy, archaic, Ill-bred, stupid, or otherwise socially and intellectually inept to actually care so much as to simply visit a public library and learn the bare basics about the law, legal, and moral philosophies, or the bare basics of a civil or criminal court procedure, their legal rights, and so on, in theory and practice, to the point that one would assume that even a more well-adjusted junior high or high schooler would be able to be aware of; yet sadly on social media we have supposed "adults" peddling or repeating their 6th grade reading level nonsense, or outdated axioms or misinformations the point of being little more than a comic relief or wonderful example of what or who "not" to be when one grows up.

(In some cases, I've honestly wondered how some of these people are supposedly even able to meet the bare minimum requirements to even function in life; some of them are so inept that things as simple as reading comprehension or contextualization, which even a junior HS student would have been expected to know escapes them - such as being too stupid to understand simple axioms such as that removing a word, sentence, paragraph, etc from the whole context can change or alter the meaning, or that in communicating verbally, non verbally, or otherwise, a "word" in a vacuum may be virtually irrelevant in and of itself, but rather "how" one says something or the existence of the "word" within the overall context, dialect, jargon, and so on; much of which should at least, on some level be commonsensical to thinking men or women, but sadly, at least as far as the media idiocray seems to indicate, seems to be lost or not dawn on people even to the point of pure denialism or intentional self-non-awareness.

(For example, in a court of law, the word "innocent" has a very specific meaning, however in other, possibly less "formal" contexts, innocent can mean or refer to many different things, such as the notion of "childhood innocent", which is entirely different than the legal notion of being found "innocent" in the context of a trial).

Making one honestly wonder if reading any book or source or writing above the 6th grade level is even in their mental capacity.

[Impenitent]

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-Imp