Maybe it's because you've spent years listening to things like Microsoft's new ad campaign, which celebrates This Stuff We Make... Advertising has never needed much from the English language.
By the same token, perhaps you're just a regular reader of Newsweek and thus hopelessly inured to slopspeak.
Still, let's not neglect a third explanation: this gumbled sentence makes sense because by p. 71 you've already absorbed the programming: the computer is bad! the computer is the Death of Culture! the computer is what we won't go near, at least if we care about the life of the mind... Poetry may be stinking dead, but propaganda lives.
"Ain't gon' be mah kinda littachuh, no suh." Ah, the American tongue!
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