I've gotta agree with this, you know I love you man but I didn't read all your post. I can't even read a post that's more than 4 lines long without getting distracted by something shiny.The attention span of people has absolutely plummeted.
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I've gotta agree with this, you know I love you man but I didn't read all your post. I can't even read a post that's more than 4 lines long without getting distracted by something shiny.
I never really paid attention...(Here's looking at you, @NoxApex(N/A)
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That's on people, actually. Maybe it has, maybe it hasn't. You can't control other people's thoughts or actions, you can only react to them.
If you feel you're being ghosted, ask. If the answer is negative, it's really just your perception that's wrong. If it's affirmative or if you don't get a response, well, that's on them. Their loss.
It's all just A.M. thoughts before work, my bros.
And I love you too, man. Some men read the newspaper over their coffee in the morning, I post here.
it's funny, then sad to imagine...I mean, the way these kids date today, all dating is speed dating.
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I enjoyed the (depressing) read, thanks a lotThe attention span of people has absolutely plummeted.
Rather the two or correlated or not though is difficult to say.
"Correlation does not imply causation."
If you take even an entry level college psychology course, they will ram that down your throat so hard it'll feel like you're in a romantic relationship anyway.
Media consumption is a contributor to that.
Media production, being the subtext of media consumption.
Back before the Telecommunications Act in 1996 which deregulated the emergence of the internet within the telecommunications market and the broadcasting market, oldschool media regulation laws from the 1930s and 1940s still largely applied.
Which means that between 1934 and 1996, all broadcasted media outlets in the United States were Federally Regulated.
Deregulation was meant to create internal competition within media markets, allowing for the inevitable development of large-scale ownership, or Media Conglomerates.
Which is why you have instances where Disney owns Discovery Channel, but Disney+ and Discovery+ are paid for separately. And why Instagram got bought out by Meta (Facebook) but Instagram and Meta (Facebook) have different marketing accounts. The same is true of Google and YouTube and their parent company Alphabet.
The snowball effect of deregulation is that it's paradoxically reformed as regulated deregulation, and the average consumer either doesn't know, or doesn't care that they're paying double to the same conglomerates.
Musically, that's why no Independent Artists can break into Billboard.
Because Billboard has long standing affiliate relationships among its conglomerate sector with Sony, Apple, and Paramount, who all collectively own and operate the brunt of mainstream music record industries.
It isn't that Independent Artists aren't allowed into Billboard, it's that Billboards biggest contributor to the Independent Artist section, comes from Disney. So if you DO manage to get your foot in the door, congratulations on getting into Billboard as an Independent Artist, your direct competition is Disney.
If that sounds like it's rigged for business, that's because it IS rigged for business.
Because where did the Mafia go after alcohol prohibition ended?
Everybody knows the Mafia don't just quietly go away and never come back...
But I digress,
The point is, media production is now scientifically designed to be degenerative to the attention span of its consumers.
That started, arguably anywhere between what's musically considered to be Modern Pop Single Song Format, to Facebook digging into Neuroscience in developing their Notification system tailored to Dopamine, or with TikTok's increasingly shorter videos. Pick a card, any card.
So yes, people definitely have less attention span.
People have less attention span because of the media that is produced and consumed.
And it is done that way on purpose in order to be able to herd people around like sheep easier.
Politically speaking, it probably didn't start out that way intentionally.
It probably just gradually snowballed and became that way.
Operationally speaking, you've gotta work with what you've got.
Feds say jump, you jump.
If you can jump to the Moon, the feds don't seem to really care, the point is that you still jumped nevertheless.
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I enjoyed the (depressing) read, thanks a lot
I had a half hour to kill. lol.
It's depressingly true. Funny at first to me, because I work with a small handful of younger women, but also not funny, because it's unfortunately true that we now have an entire generation of people who have been raised without context. Which is really depressing and sad. I took the opportunity to see them as children and teach them some basic life skills. The "don't do X, if you don't want Y to happen" thinking.
yeah... I think sadmy the world moves so fast, it's difficult to apply past's wisdom without wondering if it'll work :/
some things remain true of course, and I guess TikTok addiction is for today what alcoholism/gambling might have been for everyone in the past :/
or something along those lines.
I should try reading books again eh
I'm disappointed no one immediately replied, "TLDR" to the post about shortening attention spans.
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If it helps, I though it. lol
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huh? What did you say again??
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Well I think it's non-sensical. Some people have short attention spans, it's not like the va...huh? What did you say again??
... OH my god, A SHINY THING ON THE GROUND!
Leave it alone, I saw it first!
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lol at the divas above, Celine Dion and Adele are duking it out...
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Well, what are you going to do when two grown men are fighting over a water droplet sparkling in the sun.....
In a world predominantly run by men I think the above illustrates perfectly why there are so many wars around the globe.
I assume the droplet of water is a tear from a woman...In a world predominantly run by men I think the above illustrates perfectly why there are so many wars around the globe.
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Or laughing hysterically from the foolishness of the species..
I mean... seeing men fight over the stupidest thing can sometimes be funny, I'll agree to that :')Or laughing hysterically from the foolishness of the species..
