things i, a 40-something man, do not care to hear about from my peers. 1) their fantasy sports teams 2) their gambling 3) their group chats 4) their (literal) dreams, ie the ones that happen while they sleep
I see the appeal of *being* in one for sure. I see less appeal in *talking* about being in one and much less appeal in *hearing* people talking about theirs.
I wouldn't be shocked if we found that this general pattern holds for prior generations and is another reason why 47 year olds are so miserable. The up-and-coming stuff is not for you but you're not ready to live purely for nostalgia
I'm sure there will always be some impact just due to nature of images but i think not going to be nearly what it was when we all had internalized moving images on tiny screens as being "proof" of whatever
I am probably overly optimistic about this and other sorts of fakery but I just feel like it wont take very long for now-unreliable video to lose much (even if not all) of its power
I think DFW said something like if the author does his job right he reminds the reader how smart the reader is, which imo says a lot about him and (some of) his readers. anyhow, he had his virtues I'm sure. I cant look at his stuff objectively because he gets under my skin so fucking much
DFW was so very smugly wrong about so many things and you'd get a very different manifestation of the same dynamic you see with Elon where a layperson might nod along/think he's brilliant on a certain topic (eg math, linguistics) but when an expert reads it they can't believe how wrong he is.
