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I'm blaming someone who is a conspiracy theorist to the extreme, so much that he was a friend. Am I becoming victim to the short attention span syndrome that comes from constant information overload? Or something worse.

Blaming others for my inability to focus is shortsighted but I have a defense. To better understand my friend's hardcore conspiracy theories (and fragile mental state exacerbating it), I had to peruse the information he sent.

I could force myself to watch about a minute of any video (or story). Because none of them had any point! I watched so many that I proved Pavlov's Dog theory all over. Now I can't watch or read anything without anticipating that dreaded feeling of senselessness.

(He saw a mosquito in mid-July outside of his window - he couldn't go outside because the chemtrails and air were unbreathable. He remarked that the government sent a GMO cyber mosquito to spy on him since there are no mosquitoes in Massachusetts in the middle of the summer.)

In one video the person kept repeating the same four or five phrases, the only change the inflections and intonations. Like saying it a different way mattered. If there was truth or logic to it then it'd be different. But a sealed flood gate on an obscure two-lane car tunnel will NOT trap or corral everyone in NYC so the government can engineer a mass extinction event.

(FYI, the phrases on the flood gate are the mottos of New York and the USA. They are not a hidden message like many commenters tried to suggest with ridiculous number theories. I could numerologify any statement, too. What message do you want me to come up with?)

Whether it's wisdom or impatience that's telling me to stop reading or watching, that same attitude has surfaced in daily life. Start telling the story immediately. Don't give away the entire plot but there are about negative three seconds to get my attention.

Certainly some good articles were collateral damage in the kerfuffle. Authors shouldn't suggest an intriguing title and leave it hanging past its prime. Put some Cliff Notes for us lazy folks. Cliff Notes should make someone want to read the whole thing. Worst case, authors get their name out there when they wouldn't have otherwise. It's a win-win.

We choose to read when we want and how we want. Companies need to adapt to the new paradigm. Write the story backwards; give me the spoonful of sugar first and I'll decide how much medicine to take. Sometimes the journey is as important as the ending, and this would honor them both.

Posted by M: August 15, 2023

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