And I'm sure reading makes us smarter, and healthier, and live longer, and less depressed, and more happy, and better speakers, and better thinkers, and better feelers, and less politically polarized, and better socialized, and more attractive, and lights up all the right parts of the brain, and if everybody read more we'd have world peace.
Or not.
Maybe reading is just a really really important way of communicating. Maybe reading makes you a better reader, and perhaps a better writer, and that's it. Maybe mass literacy is one of the greatest human achievements of all time...
But do we have to make it a religion?
