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Most people are illiterate. Literacy is a skill with levels and most people don't actually ever reach the level required to be a fully functional person.
This meme is a great example. Most people don't actually reach Ogre's level of literacy. Yeah, it's played for laughs in the fact that Ogre is smarter than the average human, but Ogre is also completely correct about the level of literacy we should expect of people, in a perfect world.
No, most people are not illiterate, you're confusing literacy with media literacy because that's what you want to talk about instead.
There is a difference between "I don't know what that sign says" and "I don't know what this book means."
It's called functional literacy, which is what's being talked to here. Also, your anecdote fails to address other possibilities. I have a friend that, under stress of a new location, may lose the ability to read menus, and their literacy matches other academics in their field. I am a reader that cannot read aloud because that is an entirely different skill than reading.
I know I'm talking about functional illiteracy, that's why I said "Most likely functionally illiterate" in my comment.
The person who replied to me brought up media literacy/illiteracy, which is a separate concept, and mistakenly referred to it as illiteracy, which I corrected.
Somehow this comment replied to the wrong one, oops!