When Did Reading Become So Hard?
I know that we live in a world of memes, tweets (sorry for the old language), and cliches.
And I also know that political candidates often appeal to our short attention spans. That's too bad. The consequence is that we often get bad policy recommendations since the hard work of analysis isn't done. The policy recommendations sound sometimes like cliches and tweets, causing a war of words between us and them: us who, it seems, are against crime and them who are for it, us who are against inflation and them who are for it, us who are for a safe border and them who are against it. These are all complex issues that demand good, nuanced thought. But we prefer easy answers and cliche policy recommendations. The culture is not served by our short attention spans.