<p>"Plenty of non-literature communications obfuscate their true intent to such a degree that complex analysis is necessary to understand their true meanings.</p>
<p>Or do you just believe everything a corporation claims in its press releases? The government says there’s WMDs in Iraq - it must be true, right? They’d never lie. Would they?</p>
<p>Learning to critically analyze writing and other forms of communication is a key skill for life. "</p>
<p>LOL! True, we should constantly question the reliability of the information we receive. But literature does nothing to help us do this! How can it? </p>
<p>What will help us help ourselves from being deceive is knowing facts and knowledge. For example, you brought up the government. To prevent ourselves from being deceived, we should take an economics and American Democracy class so we can find out how it would benefit the government in lying to us. How would literature help us in in detecting false information?</p>