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Making that metaphor with "consuming" something, as if to say you're "digesting" it and then "realeasing" it... was a disturbing visual image but an imapctful one.

This reminded me of Ted Gioia's article on the state of culture:

We had ART.

ENTERTAINMENT ate art.

DISTRACTION ate entertainment.

There's this visual of 3 fishes, one progressively bigger than other, eating each other.

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Unfortunately, I feel like this is true. People watch videos to distract them from other things in life, rather than to truly be present with what they're taking in (audio, video, or writing).

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