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Re:The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age by chuckadams on Saturday September 21, 2024 @01:10PM (#41611261)
> Were there meme-pages on tiktoks which contextualized his writings in different day-to-day scenarios so that the importance of his general ideas were imprinted on their minds?

I honestly cannot tell whether this is satire or if I just don’t want to be on this planet anymore.

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Re:The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age by namaria on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:05AM (#41615707)
I hope it's satire. It would be quite limiting to believe that people can only learn things from short format video
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Re:The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age by passion__desire on Sunday September 22, 2024 @11:15AM (#41617631)
Marcus Aurelis wrote in short snippets format. They were notes to himself which were latter organized into flowing organized essays by historians and writers.
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Re:The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age by passion__desire on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:38AM (#41616118)
Meme-pages are today's "brevity is the soul of wit". They really distill experience and wisdom in nice consumable package.
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