Dances With Wolves, Wakes Up With Fleas
People who don't want to invest time in properly digesting information will never be properly informed
For those who don't get the reference, the 1990s film Dances With Wolves "was turned down by several studios due to the Western genre no longer being popular, as well as the length of the script."
Length is not a bad thing. Some of the most famous films were extremely long and some became trilogies. The running time of this film was over 3 hours (after some script shortening).
15 months ago I began sleeping a lot more (falling asleep fast and keeping/maintaining deep sleep), recognising that it helped reduce typo rates and would generally clear up the mind. At the end of 2024 (same time) I also promised to stop making "[Meme]" posts and focus more on long-form writing with greater clarity, greater depth. Despite these changes (less time awake and more time spent writing longer articles), my output actually increased a lot and I found many topics worth covering. The fresher mind kept coming up with original ideas.
I used to think of sleep as a "waste of time" and I also wasted time in social control media, where everything is short and people cannot cope with books (too long to read). That was a mistake. Good, long sleep and slower pace of life can actually increase productivity and large literary works (or films) deserve to be commended, not culled with LLM-based "summarisers" (which are bunk; LLMs lack comprehension, so they can summarise nothing, they just shorten texts and produce errors in the process).
Attention spans of people are shortened by oligarchs-owned "media", trying to replace films with TikTok "shorts" or mindless clips. They prey on emotions and instincts ("clickbait"), not profound thinking.
Small minds say "td;dr" whereas the rest say, "give me information, give me time to study it"... █
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