Re:Write to Escape Your Default Setting
by huijzer on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:52AM
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> And a corollary to this: There is probably an intellectual cost of returning to oral culture, which seems to be what's happening at the moment at a large scale [1].
If you talk about oral culture in the sense of having shorter messages, then it doesn’t necessarily have to be so much worse I think because there is a certain elegance to having clear and short messages. Like Forrest auto reviews on Youtube [1]. It’s so short that it allows more people to watch reviews for many cars. The information density is really high.
What I think is the problem is playing into emotions and especially fear. Once fear and anger kick in it’s really hard to keep thinking logically.
If you talk about oral culture in the sense of having shorter messages, then it doesn’t necessarily have to be so much worse I think because there is a certain elegance to having clear and short messages. Like Forrest auto reviews on Youtube [1]. It’s so short that it allows more people to watch reviews for many cars. The information density is really high.
What I think is the problem is playing into emotions and especially fear. Once fear and anger kick in it’s really hard to keep thinking logically.
[1]: https://youtube.com/@forrestsautoreviewsofficial