“The people who cannot sit through novels aren’t broken. They’re adapted to an environment we built. We hand them infinite information and wonder why they drown. We give them tools designed to fracture attention and blame them when their attention fractures. We built a world that profits from distraction and then pathologise the distracted.”

I feel like I could quote almost every in this essay about literacy and design. Well worth the time to read or listen.

https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem