L. M. Sacasas on Substack
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L. M. Sacasas on Substack
Our passage into bright contemporaneity has carried a price: The more complex and sophisticated our systems of lateral access, the more we sacrifice in the way of depth.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Lack of context is often a serious problem on Twitter and other forms of social media, as they may deliberately truncate context. In some parts of our culture, context is growing more scarce. “When I’m Sixty-Four” makes much more sense on Sgt. Pepper than it does on Spotify.
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
We inhabit what writer George W. S. Trow has christened “the context of no context.”