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Maybe a way to start doing this would be telling people that they are dumb.

The past couple weeks I've been thinking that people are ok with small/short/quick news because it makes them think they have figured out the whole thing. Maybe they are satisfied that they've learned something, or maybe they think it is enough.

I think folks are overestimating their ability to put loosely connected ideas into something bigger. You get a little here, a sprinkle there and you're cool with that.

It's like a fast food for the brain. You're constantly satisfied, almost by the second, because you're supposedly "learning" something.

But I don't know. My train of thought stops there. I don't know how to strip people of this urge.



Maybe we could work with the urge and create something good with it.




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