A Digital Garden

Tag: culture

  • The dawn of the post literate society

    This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…

  • Two thoughts about “the elites”

    Two things I’ve seen in the last hour on Twitter/X really illuminated for me how much “the elites” is front and center to the mess of the American culture right now. I’m also reading The Revolt of the Republic by Martin Gurri right now and have to come to see that it’s all about “the…

  • Are Cultural Products Getting Longer?

    The answer seems to be Yes. This is a great counterfactual to attention span narratives. It doesn’t speak to quality, but to attention span. Brain Rot seems to be a real thing (on the surface) but we don’t enjoy it. It seems like we’re immunizing by consuming longer content. I notice this with the kids.…