Storytelling and dwindling attention span
Once, it used to take a thousand and one nights to tell stories to each other, then only ten days, and then no more than seven. If the history of world literature teaches as something, it is that attention span is a game of attrition. The growing deficits we see today might be part of a universal law.
It all started in infinity.
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