I feel like anti-intelectualism has won. People can be given free audiobooks, the physical book, etc but they refuse to read because they view reading theory as bad or some bullshit. I have a friend and she thinks “its posh” to read theory. It seems like everyone has fallen for the propaganda that the only people who read theory are rich white college students. It fucking pisses me off.
There’s a saying that goes about leading a horse to water but can’t force it to drink, something along those lines.
You could go through so much effort to water down the language to make it easily digesting for them to read, but then they’d cry about how dumb you’re making them look.
You could try to improve that by using words to better explain, but then they’d just harp on you for using words they don’t understand.
You can jot down a multi-paragraph explanation about such and such, but then they’d whine and removed about how long it was for them to read.
It’s just, you can’t win with stupid. Willingly stupid, at that.