Creators and Consumers
Carol Marine's Pam Reading I am a hypocrite. Not the kind of hypocrite whose hypocrisy is adverse and harmful to everyone around them, and not the kind of hypocrite who is forcing their beliefs onto others, but a hypocrite nonetheless. I should hope it has not seeped into my writing yet, but I know hypocrisy exists firmly at least in the parameters of my mind. The issue is this. I loathe the attention-span economy we live in. I loathe short-form content. I loathe AI and am starting to loathe modern technology as a whole. Yet not only do I participate in the ever-increasing addiction and ever-shortening attention span of our culture, but I also create and reinforce it. On the very page from which I promote this blog and my writing, I create short-form content such as reels and post them almost every other day. I try to distinguish myself from influencers or content creators. "My content is promoting a product (writing). Theirs is the product itself." "Mine sometime...
