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Why Modern Children's Literature is so badly written

The Power, Money and Corruption involved in purposely dumbing down a civilization

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Megha Lillywhite
Feb 26, 2026
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Modern children’s literature talks to you children like they have brain damage. The “Miss Rachel Speech” didn’t come out of nowhere, it was an orchestrated and engineered phenomenon with the combined effort of government, publishing industries and useful idiots in academia. Every modern children’s book is filled with simple, repetitive sentences and idiotic, one dimensional stories because modern pedagogy convinced the government that this was the best way to teach children. As a result, an entire generation has grown up speaking and thinking like they actually do have brain damage. Publishers made fat profits from reducing the effort required to create children’s books while society itself suffered.

An entire generation has been dumbed down. If we want any hope of making it possible for the next generation to escape this downward trend, we have to understand how this happened. Turning off the screens for your child won’t do much good if the books you read to them are just as insidious.

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