The telling behaviour is falling out of our culture. The dispassionate army Sargent basically relaying information without care or cause for it's impact is tell

The telling behaviour is falling out of our culture. The dispassionate army Sargent basically relaying information without care or cause for it's impact is telling. The kid made to get through class by doing an oral presentation and focuses on rapidly getting through the content that needs to be said without caring about it's delivery is telling. Telling is the most basic form of communicating. Most of the information we used to "tell" each other is done over computers now, there's no need to boringly recite football scores or updates on the weather. The communication we do in real life is more focused now. I don't know in what places a formal and functionary 'telling' mode still is common. Asking a person who 'tells' to show more encourages them to see the words as if they describe a visual. Show the reader the details in a way that the mind's eye could reconstruct it. It's not the end all or be all of writing, for sure. If you're going to use 'show, don't tell' to silence yourself, then yeah that's not going to work.