• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      That just means not taking longer to say a thing than necessary.

      Some ideas take longer. Short understandings of long ideas can have disastrous results.

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        in separate but related news, high-calorie food is better digested when it’s mixed with lots of low-calorie fiber. relevant link

        edit: to clarify, it’s relevant because it’s the same with ideas. “high-impact ideas” are better received when they’re mixed with a lot of low-impact context and examples.

        • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I’m familiar with both the formal and informal versions of this idea. I actually wrote a pretty good essay on it for a communications class like twenty years ago.

          Doesn’t change the fact that some ideas simply are not easily or legally conveyed in this format. Many, in fact. Some of them really fucking important. Lefties who got their entire grasp of shit from twitter posts are useful primarily as mass.

          You’re an addict defending your brain rot surrender as noble crusade for truth. I won’t scold you for not doing the hardest kind of activism, but dont entrench yourself in the failures of those around you to make space for you and not suck by defining your cope as high morality.