Not the OP, but I recall a section in Mark Fischer's book Capitalist Realism, in which he relayed an anecdote from his teaching days. According to Fischer, a large plurality of his students (in higher education) were functionally illiterate. They had gone through the usual early-ed literacy, and knew the mechanics of how to read, but in practice showed a distinct aversion to actually doing reading.

When asked to read, they would complain that they couldn't, because it was "boring". They had been so consumed by spectacle that the ordinary act of reading words off a page had drifted beyond their reach.