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0 pointsethbr03y ago0 comments

That's a good observation. It's not just the neurological changes as a result of frequent exposure to clip-style internet content, but also simply adjacency to these things, as a consequence of their simply existing in ones environment.

In order to read like I read as a teenager, I now need to be on a beach and have detoxed from work/responsibility for a day or so.

I suspect the two are strongly linked. I.e. my subconscious at most times is actually continually running "normal adult life/parent shit" in the background, versus teenager-me had those cycles free.

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lamontcg3y ago

I wonder how much strain on our ability to read long form is also caused by constantly reading badly proofread comments on the Internet, particularly ones involving autocorrect typos producing sentences that read almost-but-not-entirely correctly.

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