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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Emily Nussbaum

      1. This is exactly right and inspires a few thoughts I have on Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Ulysses, literacy, FDR, Eisenhower & presidential reading.https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/1113937215757877248 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Emily NussbaumVerified account @emilynussbaum
      I don't care what books the candidates like, the fact that they *read books* is already an improvement on our current apocalypse. I'm easy like that.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

      2. Trump is the first post-literate president. Reading is just not his thing. TV is his main medium: it's the prism through which he understands the world. This marks him off from everyone who previously held the office.

      4:05 PM - 4 Apr 2019
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          3. Part of me is, I confess, annoyed by the performative intellectualism of Buttigieg's list of favorite books. I mean, I would rather have a social democrat who read only trashy novels to a neoliberal who read admittedly great books like Ulysses. But that's not the divide.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          4. The real divide, as McLuhan and Postman taught us, is between literacy & post-literacy, between those who can read (for whom the written word is a part of their life) and those whom other media have supplanted reading.

          2 replies 28 retweets 174 likes
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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          5. People are saying Reagan & Bush Jr. weren't readers, but the evidence doesn't bear that out. Reagan's mostly read right wing media (Human Events, National Review, even Reader's Digest) but he clearly digested it and it formed his worldview.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          6. Bush Jr. also, the evidence suggests, dutifully read the popular histories Karl Rove and others gave him. He was still part of the world of literacy in a way that Trump is not.

          5 replies 10 retweets 123 likes
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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          7. Some presidents have been great readers (TR, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, @dick_nixon), some more casual. But again, it doesn't really matter what they read as the fact that they did read: reading giving them habits of linear, sequential thinking & abstraction which Trump lacks.

          10 replies 27 retweets 197 likes
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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          8. Neil Postman, a forgotten prophet, is very good on the specific habits of mind that you get from being a reader.pic.twitter.com/tWeLDVaQ8L

          16 replies 57 retweets 267 likes
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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          9. Alot the traits Trump has that some people see as symptoms of mental decline (the limited vocabulary, the non-sequitur and logical muddle, the frequent resort to slurs and crude nick-names) are more accurately seen as signs of post-literacy.

          12 replies 41 retweets 215 likes
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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Emily Nussbaum

          10. This is a good point. Trump not only watches lots of TV. He watches the shittiest TV. No prestige TV for him, with its narrative ambitions and explorations of ambiguity.https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/1113945275528351750 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Emily NussbaumVerified account @emilynussbaum
          Replying to @HeerJeet
          Not just TV: specifically cable news & SNL, maybe sports. I don't think he watches any scripted television—or if he does, he hasn't mentioned it. (Other than his own retro appearances on The Nanny etc.) I'm kind of curious if he ever watched reality TV other than The Apprentice.
          9 replies 29 retweets 172 likes
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        10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Apr 2019

          11. Anyways, I wrote about Trump & post-literacy a while ago for @newrepublic. I'll add: Trump's post-literarcy might explain the performative literacy of some Democratic candidates:https://newrepublic.com/article/144940/trump-tv-post-literate-american-presidency …

          10 replies 17 retweets 112 likes
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        2. Andrew Brinton‏ @abrinton 4 Apr 2019
          Replying to @ibnmeeninta @HeerJeet

          Reagan was obviously too busy reading Proust to keep track of Iran Contra.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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