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Diary of Anne Frank

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Personal Diary of Stephen Alfred Gutknecht.

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why should anyone read such large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials? They likely won’t, and will move on.

The fact they are addicted to Tweet-length and Tweet-think is the problem. Neil Postman's book is only 184 pages, it is in any used bookstore from 1985 for probably $6 cost. "large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials" - Neil Postman is not difficult to read, there are even videos that cut the subject down to brief consumption.

6 minutes and 15 seconds on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM

I created a Lemmy community too:

!BackTo1985@lemm.ee

If you saw my old reddit account, you would have seen similar walls of text. I still say the same things. but, now i feel like more people actually listen, learn, and respond.

I understand what you are saying, that TLDR and ELI4 stuff sells better. I have known that since Neil Postman's book came out in 1985. I'm entirely self-aware of how I communicate and the kind of craving and advice you have about how to mimic Donald Trump and Elon Musk and be much more popular in year 2025 on social machine systems.