Illegeracy

Illegeracy is a term which was created by a professor of English at UCLA. The most basic definition of illegeracy is the inability to choose pertaining to law and public acts. The simplest way to think about this term is to consider alliteracy which occurs when a person has the ability to read but chooses not to, as opposed to illiteracy meaning that a person lacks the ability to read completely.
“The fuel of democracy is information.” –Thomas Jefferson
The cause of illegeracy is a simultaneous failure of the media and education systems. The media systems’ primary purpose should be to inform the public; however, the media corporations now focus on entertaining for profit. Education, as many people have agreed, isn’t up to par either. Many school districts are ignored or in need of improvement, while the students of those districts suffer from a lack of education and needed information. Imagine the loss of information to be a loss of fuel. In many instances, the ...