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Informational obesity will kill you. But first, it will dumb you down. Actually, it already is. You know it yourself. You wake up, pick up the phone and begin eating information before your brain has even brushed its teeth. By breakfast, you have consumed a war, 4 political opinions, 7 LinkedIn sermons, a celebrity divorce, someone explaining quantum physics in 43 seconds, another person telling you why coffee is killing you, and a podcast clip in which a 24-year-old millionaire explains how waking up at 4:37 AM changed his life.
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Is this really new? A morning newspaper contained all of these things, plus local items like legal notices, classifieds, births, marriages and deaths that wouldn’t be in a typical online feed. The newspaper included big detailed ads from groceries and department stores.
What’s different is interactivity, partly myth and partly real. With the newspaper you didn’t believe you could talk back to the politicians and celebrities. Now you believe you can fire back a snarky comment, which will simply go into your permanent Deepstate dossier and won’t reach the celebrity.
Ads are genuinely different. The online ad from a store is an immediate order blank.
But if we compare with a pre-1950 newspaper the difference disappears. Phone orders with same-day delivery were normal before 1950. After everyone had cars, most stores stopped delivering.
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