the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they’d read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012.

That’s quite a drop. I def notice that reading is very polarized now, someone either reads like 30 or more books a year, or they read nothing.

The plummeting literacy rates is pretty scary too. Literally the richest country in world history and their literacy rates are worse than many dirt-poor countries, and getting worse.