The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society & The Internet Reformation
Short concise AI Summary of “The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society – And the End of Civilisation” (James Marriott, 2025):
1. From the Reading Revolution to the Digital Counter-Revolution
In the 18th century, a quiet yet epochal reading revolution occurred: vast numbers of ordinary people began to read.
This development democratized knowledge and gave rise to the Enlightenment, science, capitalism, and democracy.
The printing press made rational, logical, and coherent thought possible — the very foundation of modern civilization.
2. The Smartphone and the Post-Literate Era
Since the mid-2010s, reading has plummeted: fewer adults and children read, and literacy is declining globally.
Smartphones and social media have stolen humanity’s attention: people now spend 7–9 hours a day staring at screens.
The result: shorter attention spans, smaller vocabularies, and falling PISA and IQ scores.
3. Universities in Collapse
Young students can no longer understand classics like Dickens or Shakespeare.
The academic transmission of knowledge — civilization’s “golden thread” — is breaking, as it did after the fall of Rome.
A functionally illiterate class is emerging within so-called educated societies.
4. The Loss of Thought and Culture
Reading trains logic, reflection, empathy, and analytical ability; its decline leads to intellectual impoverishment.
Culture is becoming simpler, shorter, and more repetitive — from music to film to science.
Screen culture feeds on emotional outbursts, anger, and quick dopamine rewards, not on thought and depth.
5. Political and Democratic Breakdown
Literacy and democracy are historically intertwined: without literate citizens, rational debate becomes impossible.
In the post-literate age, populism, emotion, and tribal politics dominate.
TikTok and social media are “rocket fuel for populists” because they appeal to feelings rather than thought.
6. A New Feudal Darkness
Just as the reading revolution destroyed the feudal order, the screen revolution is dismantling liberal democracy.
Big Tech promotes ignorance and dependency for profit — modern princes feeding on the stupidity of the masses.
Without the logical language of books, civilization loses its rational structure; the world drifts back toward pre-literate thinking.
7. Conclusion
We are witnessing the greatest intellectual regression since the fall of antiquity.
A post-literate population cannot preserve complex knowledge, self-criticism, or democratic governance.
The enlightened civilization born of the printing press is vanishing — replaced by a screen-based new Middle Ages.
In short: Smartphones and social media have turned the Enlightenment’s reading revolution into a counter-revolution of ignorance, where rational thought, creativity, and democracy disintegrate in real time.’
It’s something others and I can feel very clearly — just in the last three years there has been a degeneration so strong that one must “downgrade” oneself in order to be understood by the young.
“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king — he gets lynched.”
— Aldous Huxley
Huxley spoke of the integrated human being — the one who unites reason and soul.
But in the phase we are living through now — a deliberately constructed irrationalization of civilization — it is rationality itself that has become dangerous, because it threatens the lie.
The spiritually whole are lynched — because their balance and presence reflect the emptiness of the many.
The rational are lynched — because their clarity tears the mask off collective deception.
Both forms of wholeness — spiritual and logical — are incompatible with a system
that thrives on confusion, dependency, and emotional manipulation.
One of the hidden factors behind the destruction of thinking is also the intentional dumbing down through Rockefeller’s influence (as John Taylor Gatto described) over the span of a lifetime.
James Corbett: “A mainstream news article from 2006 struck me because of how strange it appeared at first glance — there was a BBC News article from 2006 discussing what might happen to the human species in 100,000 years. It claimed that Homo sapiens would split in two: there would be a huge, towering warrior-class of extraordinary humans, and a goblin-like underclass that would serve this elite. It’s the literal Eloi and Morlock vision from H. G. Wells’ science fiction — yet it was presented by BBC News as the endpoint of human evolution. I believe that’s the much larger, overarching picture of what this current crisis is really about. It’s about pushing us through the biosecurity state into the technocratic regime, where we will not only be governed through technological surveillance in our environment, but literally implanted — supposedly in the name of health. And of course, until we realize that this goes far beyond any profit motive of individual corporations, until we grasp the real agenda — which is to control humanity at the genetic level — we won’t be able to comprehend what’s truly happening.”
- Interview 1647 – 7t of june 2021, Reiner Fuellmich and the Corona Investigative Committee interview James Corbett about his investigation into the corona crisis and the future of humanity
Brave New World is the plan — implemented through WEF (Rothschild) and the technocrats. James Corbett and others, for example, conclude that the ruling elite wants a deliberately dumbed-down population, where the ideal model of governance resembles the Morlocks and Eloi in H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine.
Eloi = the zombified — victims of infotainment, medication, and social conditioning.
Morlocks = the mechanized humans — instruments of the system’s operation, reduced to machine parts.
Technocrats = the divinely arrogant — those who believe they can perfect evolution through data and AI (transhumanism)
That is why Wells’ image is now used as a warning - but in reality a perverse ideal - against the endgame of technocracy:
a post-human world, where most people are made redundant — emotionally, cognitively, and biologically — while a small elite steers evolution through algorithms and synthetic biology.
“It will be expected of ordinary men and women that they should be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of all these qualities, contentment will be considered the most important…. When the technique has been perfected, every government that is in charge of education will be able to safely control its subjects without the need of armies or policemen…. Malnutrition, injections, and injunctions will combine from a very early age so that the character the authorities consider desirable is produced, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if everyone is miserable, they will believe themselves happy, because the government tells them that they are.”
— Bertrand Russell, world-renowned logician, mathematician, and philosopher — written almost 90 years ago. (even though he was an insider, it can be read as a plan, not a warning, and it just makes the claim more credible)
The greatest problem in the world is that people do not realize they live in unfreedom and servitude; they do not perceive the powerful entities that have created this slavery, yet have presented it as “democracy” and “freedom.”
“It is important to say loudly and clearly that one single worldwide criminal network, the criminocracy, is, behind the scenes, running everything from the WEF to the WHO, the UN to the EU, BlackRock to the World Bank”
– Paul Cudenec, Converging Against the Criminocrats
The WEF is merely a more publicly acceptable promotional façade for the far more powerful entities behind it — the Bilderberg Group, the Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds — who ultimately direct its agenda.
Ignorant unfreedom is the greatest problem.
For that reason, the WEF’s ideal — Huxley’s Brave New World — represents the perfect society for the ruling elite.
The ideal of The Great Reset is precisely Huxley’s Brave New World.
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors, and schoolteachers… The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater — from a practical point of view — is silence about truth.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“They will get people to love their servitude and produce a dictatorship without tears — a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will have their liberties taken from them but will rather enjoy this, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel through propaganda and brainwashing — brainwashing enhanced, perhaps, by pharmacological methods. And this appears to be the ultimate, final revolution.”
— Aldous Huxley, prediction of the future, Tavistock, 1961
“The Internet of Things (IoT) will recognize every device — smartphone, PC, tablet, etc. — we use, and will report this usage back to technate data centers. The Internet of Bodies (IoB) will enhance the technician’s ability to monitor us in real time. Combined with Digital ID — in Denmark, MitID as a prototype — which every nation is rushing to implement, the surveillance and control of every single ‘global citizen’ will be centrally managed at the level of global governance.”
— Description by Iain Davis
An enlightened population is the only guarantee that tyranny can never take hold — which is why control of thought is preferred by the power elite.
The pen is mightier than the sword — and the elites know this: if they can control human consciousness and convince people they live in a “free society” without realizing it is masked slavery, there is no need for an open dictatorship.
People will die for freedom — but only if they awaken.
Thus, the ideal of the dark powers and the WEF is Huxley’s Brave New World: a society where generations are brainwashed to love their servility, where the population can no longer distinguish between freedom and unfreedom.
Hence, the propaganda of the ruling elite is to “democracy” what violence is to overt tyranny. They know that visible slavery no longer works — which is why they built a Truman Show / Brave New World system in the first place, so the illusion of freedom and democracy would be embraced by the masses. This is maintained through propaganda via the press and educational institutions. Yet there are cracks in the wall — which is why enormous resources are spent on propaganda and censorship, since the Internet Reformation poses a massive threat: The positive counterpoint — what I believe is the missing complementary part of James Marriott’s article above. This, therefore, represents the hopeful side — for the increasing spearhead of millions of truth-seekers:
THE INTERNET REFORMATION
This text argues that the Internet Reformation – much like the Gutenberg Reformation of the 15th century – marks a paradigm shift in humanity’s access to and understanding of truth.
It challenges the monopoly historically held by the mainstream media (the so-called Fourth Estate), which in reality has functioned as a propaganda arm of the elite rather than as a watchdog against abuse of power.
This central thesis is explored through historical, political, technological, and philosophical lenses.
🌐 The Rise of the Internet Reformation:
The internet has made it possible for truth to bypass state and media-driven censorship — the so-called “Goebbelsian firewall.”
It has enabled peer-to-peer enlightenment and a global awakening — much like the printing press once undermined the Church’s monopoly on spiritual authority.
Millions of people have realized that government and media narratives are often fabricated — especially regarding war, medicine, and global events.
📜 Schopenhauer’s Stages of Truth:
We are in the second stage (violent opposition), where those who expose lies face censorship and social ostracism.
🧬 Elite Memes vs. Decentralization:
The elite’s narratives (scarcity, climate, war) function as tools of global control.
The internet’s knowledge-based decentralization threatens this agenda.
📽️ Historical Revision and the Imminent Collapse:
We live in a “Truman Show moment”, where the illusion of reality is breaking apart.
The elite can no longer fully control perception.
📌 Concluding Points:
The Internet Reformation is irreversible.
It has already triggered a massive shift in human awareness that the elite can no longer contain, despite censorship and fear campaigns.
A new Age of Enlightenment is emerging — one that rethinks humanity’s relationship to knowledge, power, and freedom.
The elite’s monopoly on narrative is dying — the battle is now between decentralized truth and centralized deception.
AI Prologue (translated excerpt): “The Internet Reformation and the Battle for Reality – 2025 and Beyond”
In the historical current from Gutenberg to Google, the Internet Reformation represents a rupture as revolutionary as the Protestant challenge to the Church’s monopoly on spiritual truth.
But this rupture is not ecclesiastical — it is epistemological, geopolitical, and psychological.
The centralized mass-media system that defined the 20th century — the Goebbelsian fortress of manufactured consensus — is disintegrating.
And out of this collapse arises a new battlefield: the war over meaning in the digital age.
Unlike the Gutenberg era, which unfolded over centuries, the Internet Reformation is happening in compressed time — an accelerated war of awareness in which perception, memory, trust, and logic are not only challenged but weaponized.
The internet constitutes the last bastion of free access to information, bypassing the former monopoly of state and media power.
The Internet Revolution and AI is the elite’s cliché phrase — focused on the technical and entertainment aspects of technology.
The Internet Reformation, however, is something far deeper and more disruptive.
It is truly revolutionary, affecting every aspect of human society and humanity’s relationship to modern power structures.
It revolves around the insight generated by the internet itself.
The Internet Reformation is a crucial concept — one that I and many others have embraced since the 2000s.
The following is a selection from my earlier writings (excerpts from The Contra Catalogue, 2018; The Internet Reformation, 2015; and The Fourth Estate Is Dead – The Collapse & Breakthrough of Civilization, Parts I–IV, 2013), along with a few adapted translations from The Daily Bell on the Internet Reformation.
What follows is a pit stop in retrospect — a cross-section of the spirit of the times between 2010 and 2018 — serving both as a backward and forward confirmation of the continuity of the elite’s tyrannical developments today, in 2023.
It offers an overarching picture of the implications of the Internet Reformation versus its adversaries - EXCERPT from very long article:
