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It's not just the loss of context and taxonomy/ontology of information it's that everywhere in our culture people are being further and further enticed to solel
by acephal 7y ago
It's not just the loss of context and taxonomy/ontology of information it's that everywhere in our culture people are being further and further enticed to solely think in terms of arbitrarily coordinated stream of consciousness which means people aren't getting regular practice at sustaining long chains of reasoning and describing those chains comprehensively to other people if that makes sense. I mean just think about the phenomenon of people reading and reacting to headlines, particularly political ones, versus reading the articles and providing sensible input about them. It's not just people are too lazy and entitled to their opinion, its also that reading long chains of information is getting prohibitive for their brain to allocate for. I've noticed this even in myself as once I left philosophical academia (continental European philosophy, to be specific), which involved reading ridiculously long chains elaborating a single idea such as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or Heidegger's Being and Time, for SWE, I've gotten increasingly worse at being able read great lengths of text year over year. You can argue one needs to pull themselves up by the bootstrap but this problem is in very similar territory to "I'm the only person on my avant garde social network and everyone else is on Facebook".