This Tweet sums up everything wrong and exhausting and numbing about modern life
"For the most part, scrolling and short-form video specialize in moments of sensation, divested of any narrative context. Their dominance sends us into uncharted territory as a civilization."
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"Fritz Breithaupt of Indiana University, author of The Narrative Brain, has stressed how essential narrative is to sharing experience, building a sense of social cohesion, and processing difficult experiences. It seems that without narrative, or with only fragments of narrative, our ability to perform these essential cognitive tasks will collapse (if it hasn’t already)."
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"But at least the names of the poets who went mad in the 18th century are still known to us, while those who succumb to the short-video haze today may well languish in a state of total obscurity, perhaps having never written a word."
— Against an Endless Present (The Dispatch)