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Perhaps we really are in the (clickbait) matrix. An blog post about a pointless research project aimed at drawing a conclusion that could be drawn from common

by RNCTX 5y ago

Perhaps we really are in the (clickbait) matrix. An blog post about a pointless research project aimed at drawing a conclusion that could be drawn from common sense without any research at all. All of which is a somewhat circular exercise in bad content announcing itself to the world in an ontological sense.

volkk 5y ago
this is actually something that's been bothering me heavily, lately. i've noticed a lot of content is created in these convoluted and grandiose borderline word vomit. honestly, a lot of the stuff frequently makes me feel a bit dumb as a reader. by the time i get through it, i realize that the main thesis is actually extremely simple but surrounded by flowery words. furthermore, i'm also noticing at my workplace many people saying a lot of things, to the point of utter rambling and going off topic, in extremely verbose ways but communicating ideas that could have been said in the most basic of ways. i'm not sure if i'm just slowing down as i get older and get dumber, but i am feeling like a lot of information hasn't gotten more complex, but the way its communicated very much has.
- RNCTX 5y ago
  I would argue the reason is because no one rewards silence, there's still a need for people to distinguish themselves from a crowd, but as the technological age starts to wane, we are at a point where less people have something worthwhile to say. You can see the same thing in the humanities, which went through all of this before there was a tech world. There's only so much you're going to find digging through Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Ovid for the 10,000,000th time. So people create new discourses, new fields of study, and new languages to describe them that aren't really new at all, but rather just a roundabout saying that the author didn't know what else to say.

4 ms·

Perhaps we really are in the (clickbait) matrix. An blog post about a pointless research project aimed at drawing a conclusion that could be drawn from common

by RNCTX 5y ago

volkk 5y ago
this is actually something that's been bothering me heavily, lately. i've noticed a lot of content is created in these convoluted and grandiose borderline word vomit. honestly, a lot of the stuff frequently makes me feel a bit dumb as a reader. by the time i get through it, i realize that the main thesis is actually extremely simple but surrounded by flowery words. furthermore, i'm also noticing at my workplace many people saying a lot of things, to the point of utter rambling and going off topic, in extremely verbose ways but communicating ideas that could have been said in the most basic of ways. i'm not sure if i'm just slowing down as i get older and get dumber, but i am feeling like a lot of information hasn't gotten more complex, but the way its communicated very much has.
- RNCTX 5y ago
  I would argue the reason is because no one rewards silence, there's still a need for people to distinguish themselves from a crowd, but as the technological age starts to wane, we are at a point where less people have something worthwhile to say. You can see the same thing in the humanities, which went through all of this before there was a tech world. There's only so much you're going to find digging through Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Ovid for the 10,000,000th time. So people create new discourses, new fields of study, and new languages to describe them that aren't really new at all, but rather just a roundabout saying that the author didn't know what else to say.