LightNews LightNews
gregorhategood.bsky.social
@gregorhategood.bsky.social
69 followers 280 following 0 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
suellentrop.bsky.social
In my lifetime, I have watched the demolition of the capacity to read and engage with books. Not just of our children, who have been the unwitting guinea pigs of growing up inside of a cellphone, but among all of us human beings. We have lost not just our ability to concentrate on deciphering long passages of written language; we have, I believe, begun to lose our attachment to the meaning of words and sentences, which we once trusted to carry the precious freight of communicating who we are — to ourselves and to each other. The blatantly, proudly senseless speech of our current leaders is not the cause, it is merely the most extravagant example of what happens when an entire culture — increasingly, the monoculture of the world — gives up on, and ceases to be capable of, the struggle to funnel meaning into language — to translate themselves, their thoughts, and their ideas into words that others can read and share. Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being.
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reposted
alexanderchee.bsky.social
Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.
May 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM