Most people tend to have teeny, tiny lil’ attention spans.
They only can take in bits and clips of things before they get bored or distracted by something else.
Part of this is basic human limitation. Most people can’t process or contextualize much before their brains overload and tap-out.
But on top of that things now are moving so fucking fast that even the sharpest can’t adequately process them. Combine inherent limitation with this furious speed and you have a perfect storm of social disease…an attention span epidemic.
What’s worse, many people, driven by hubris or dark magic I don’t know, use that dime-deep exposure to then confidently share their un-nuanced, largely-ignorant judgments about what’s “right” with the rest of the world.
…WTF?
No.
These are tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
[Fist-bumps Shakespeare, then tells MacBeth to lighten up]
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion… but that doesn’t necessarily make those opinions any sort of realistic or valid.
New Rule: If someone TL;DRs (“Too Long/Didn’t Read”s) something but then adds some kind of opinionated comment to it, that opinion doesn’t count.
Yeah I said it.
TL;DR as a standalone comment is valid. Brevity is the soul of wit, and over-writing is a common flaw of authors. Saying a piece of writing needs to be streamlined is fine (and probably true). Saying the most with the least is writing’s true art.
…But if you can’t be bothered to at least read all of something before making your thoughts on its contents available for everyone to see, you have less than no business making your opinions of it public.
Until you fully-read and at least legitimately try to understand something, shut the fuck up about it. Seriously. You’re an insult to thought and evolution.
Let’s up the quality of public discourse. Its lack is stoking moral absolutism and destroying civility. Like I said, a social disease – one which typically leads to bullet-based problem-solving.
Let’s stop the devolution.