Counterpoint: An illiterate citizenry begets a monarchy. Politics is downstream of culture.
There's only so many books you can write with 100 words. And that works fine if a mystical priest-class keeps the calendar and everyone else just follows orders.
But for the hoi polloi to actually have **agency** in their own society, they just are HAVE to going to learn to read. And that's going to take a culture that's centered around (tech-)literacy being a necessity in the modern world.
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