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>It's a pity the author can't start a part of this revolution by writing more clearly. By clearly you mean writing short articles that you can finish in five m
by trendoid 13y ago
>It's a pity the author can't start a part of this revolution by writing more clearly.
By clearly you mean writing short articles that you can finish in five minutes? Adam Curtis always builds his stories with historical events to conclude with a point which is relevant today. You need to be patient to appreciate some of his stuff.
- swalsh 13y agoRoughly 70% of the things I read on the internet are worthless reads, but I don't realize it until maybe about a third of the way through. I put up with it because the other 30% is typically pretty good at capturing my attention. Except, when the majority of things I read are crap (and honestly, a post littered with videos typically is) I tend to come at articles with a "prove I should finish reading you" kind of attitude. The beginning of this post wasn't very successful at capturing my attention. It would seem he has a very similar style as Venkat (though I think Venkat is a better writer) from RibbonFarm. I guess the difference is I have a general expectation that I realize he's building up to something bigger... and that conclusion might even be 3 or 4 posts from this long post. However he's earned my patience.
- w_t_payne 13y agoI rather liked the way that he built up his "hook" to lead the reader on, deeper into the piece. I thought it was quite clever, and I enjoyed reading it.
- JackFr 13y agoOTOH I enjoy reading Malcolm Gladwell, and he's been shown to be kind of wrong about most stuff.
- dspeyer 13y agoUntil he started talking about the history of the Yeardye family. One long digression about some specific people I have no previous reason to care about is tolerable. When he went back to them I decided to drop the article and just read comments, because the gossip/substance ratio was clearly too high.