"If you think you're going to write something like "The Brothers Karamazov" or "Moby-Dick," go ahead. Nobody will read it. I don't care how good it is, or how smart the readers are. Their intentions, their brains are different."this succinctly summarizes the problem with the way many people view the way our modern society, especially the younger demographic part of it, imbibes information and entertainment. we are fundamentally different creatures today. notice this important part of the quote:
"I don't care...how smart the readers are."it's not about being stupid or smart. our "brains are different." it's not that kids suffer from attention deficit disorder or aren't literate or can't concentrate. it's that they think differently. their world is different. actually our world is different; they're just responding to it more accurately and with more efficacy.
a related discussion on the increase in cuts in films can be found in a previous blog post of mine: montage.
2 deep thoughts:
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I love how you always champion the kids.
One of the people I interviewed for my newest documentary had this conclusion in a 1984 paper - she indicated machinery like computers and changes information would change the human brain, that we would be a modified species in some way by this.
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