[0:00] is anyone else struggling to reconcile with the fact that there's a significant portion of Americans who are just insane Between 2022 and 2023 the National Literacy Institute reported that 54% of US adults have a literacy below sixth grade meaning that they have a tough time reading and spelling words like flammable institution sympathetic psychology and also that **45** million Americans or about one in seven have a reading level below fifth grade and are functionally illiterate and that 21% of them are illiterate that's your reasoning not that they're insane