How do you feel about the decline of long-form posts?

Personally I've come to terms with it.

Literacy rates are extremely high; being able to write a lot is not a flex anymore.

And the modern world demands so much attention there isnt much left to waste.

I try to convey as much meaning in as little words as possible.

It's hard, though, having come from formal education. Word quotas and whatnot; we were taught the opposite.

What do you think?

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val70 · 51-55

It's a sign of the times. We're actually spending too little time on what's really of use, only on things that have an use for the enviroment that we live in. Modern times. It's strangling good manners

CynicalSpaceMan · 26-30, M

@val70 Seen. This world has simplified us and, thus, simplified our interactions as well.

val70 · 51-55

@CynicalSpaceMan It's erasing individuality

CynicalSpaceMan · 26-30, M

@val70 right. Which is ironic because individuality was the whole selling point of western civilization was it not?

Turns out that without community individuals become as withered and meek as crops grown in rocks.

val70 · 51-55

@CynicalSpaceMan Community isn't society, nor is modernity the way ahead. You're mixing up things. It's actually the individual that makes the group, and not the other way around. Plenty of great books on that. Try Huxley's Brave new world

CynicalSpaceMan · 26-30, M

@val70

I just have a different perspective on it is all.

I'm a believer that people are products of their environment, and that societies are like factories that churn out people.

People with traits selected for by said society; people being a reflection of the society that created them.

If people are becoming stunted and one dimensional, it is because society is prioritizing things that lead to such traits being necessary for survival within it.

Things that erode community and thus erode the material that people are made of. The medium they grow in.

Its like a sociological dust bowl effect.

Im more in the Murray Bookchin's ecology of freedom rabbit-hole.