Re:Adam Curtis Explains It All
by nabla9 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:07PM
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> but just try to explain in plain English what you learned
Maybe the point is not to learn but to think? It's food for thought.
If you make something for audience that consumes information actively (thinks), you can make a very deep, complex and narrow opinionated argument. The viewpoint is not fully developed. Audience neither accept or rejects it (hopefully).
(does not apply to specialized fields, like scientific writing with their own standards)
Re:Adam Curtis Explains It All
by Bakary on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:26PM
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Wouldn't an audience self-identifying as consuming information "actively" inevitably fool themselves into adopting narratives and consider them to be the product of thought?
Maybe the point is not to learn but to think? It's food for thought.
If you make something for audience that consumes information actively (thinks), you can make a very deep, complex and narrow opinionated argument. The viewpoint is not fully developed. Audience neither accept or rejects it (hopefully).
(does not apply to specialized fields, like scientific writing with their own standards)