Somehow, I’m pretty sure whatever Woke Elements will try taking control of this means of distribution, like making it so that you can’t get funding on Patreon on the basis of a bunch of accusations of being a NeoNazi
Oh, I'm sure that will happen, and then, like everything else, there will be another way to get the signal out. Even if it's samizdat.
Is it wrong that I hope even Books get replaced with digital or are sold more on Kindles than in physical copies?
Hell, I think people being able to download books or lessons online is what will help unshackle people off whatever possible indoctrination both public and private schools and colleges may make
Yes.
You want to take a book away from somebody, you have to brute force it. Bust into their place and torch it. Destroying electronic media is a whole lot easier and more subtle. We're already seeing digital media downloads limited to certain devices, deleted wholesale, DRMed out, corrupted, or just rendered obsolete by new technology. How many of us have video games, tapes, betamax, etc. that are rendered unusable because the platform it depends on died?
As for unshackling, that assumes people are able to learn through just reading. Some people can. A lot of people can't, especially if they lack the education to understand the material in the first place. Many people do not have the ability to teach themselves. Many people do not even have the ability to ask the
question. Or, when hit with a question, they just sit there dumbfounded.
Learning also very much depends on both the material and the way it's written, presented and put together. We also see the vast proliferation of discussion boards for things as reasonably simple as wargames rules written in plain English. The Too Fat Lardies boards are a good indication of how confusing simple English can be; then you get to the high art of interpreting Barkerese, which often confuses people skilled in bureaucratese.
If anything, we are seeing more and more people going for things like podcasts, YouTube videos, and the like, where it's a lecture. Somebody else does the learning, the assimilating, the understanding and the packaging of a product to you. So I don't think you're going to see the didactic teacher/student element going away anytime soon. Far too many people are most comfortable in that learning environment. If they're willing to learn at all.
Alongside reducing taxation for that stuff and allowing kids access to useful education quick and cheap and possibly from an earlier age
Everybody over the age of 12 has the entirety of human knowledge in their hip or ass pocket, and can get an answer to pretty much any reasonably anticipatable question in about five to ten minutes. The issue isn't getting information to people, it's getting people to drink it. Can't tell you how often I have people amazed at problems I solved by googling "how do I do X" because they couldn't think to do that, or couldn't make sense of what they got.