Morning radio shows on rock/alt stations perfected it a long time ago -- focus your segments around sex and alcohol. Throw in fart jokes too for good measure. Hoards of simple people will flock to you.
We've moved on though. More dangerous than airwave broadcast drivel is our newfound self-participatory drivel. reddit lets you think you're being clever. HN lets you think you're being smart. Brain rot personalized to your interests. It slips around your "I'm wasting my life" filters for hours (days?) at a time.
Sometimes it's good. You want to turn your brain off. Browsing reddit is cheaper than antidepressants. You just have to guard against too much looping. Infinite loops of social media consumption are hazardous to your health. Everything in moderation, including moderation.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
Really? I find more interesting and valuable content from assorted so-called amateur "user generated" sources than professional outlets that I'm routinely amazed.
Is there a lot of crap out there? Sure. But I don't think the percentage has changed, we just have more of everything and more ways to get it.
I like that. Yes it means I have do more filtering for myself but I'm OK with that. I'd rather have more sources and choices than go back to the equivalent of "you can have nay color you want so long as it's black" days.
HN lets you think you're being smart.
Or not, based on how people respond. Truth is I've come across many people on HN who seem to be in-fact smart.
There's some truth in what you wrote but it's clouded by some sort of world-weariness. The world is so much bigger.
I love it when I come to a thread, HN or reddit, and I read the first comment and think "Cool, I'm done with this topic, no need to read ay other comments. <clicks x>
Morning radio shows on rock/alt stations perfected it a long time ago -- focus your segments around sex and alcohol. Throw in fart jokes too for good measure. Hoards of simple people will flock to you.
We've moved on though. More dangerous than airwave broadcast drivel is our newfound self-participatory drivel. reddit lets you think you're being clever. HN lets you think you're being smart. Brain rot personalized to your interests. It slips around your "I'm wasting my life" filters for hours (days?) at a time.
Sometimes it's good. You want to turn your brain off. Browsing reddit is cheaper than antidepressants. You just have to guard against too much looping. Infinite loops of social media consumption are hazardous to your health. Everything in moderation, including moderation.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.