Boris Strugatsky. Powerless of this world (№ 174480)

Thousands of years, illiterate people were the norm, and it did not bother anyone, except the saints and fanatics. It took something really significant to change in society, literacy has become necessary. Something fundamentally important. And then, as if by the wand of Moses, for any hundred years become literate. Maybe politeness, too, yet our society does not need? We don't need a tolerant, honest, hard-working, not needed and open-minded: not completely necessary - and so all of us right and by.