![]() I like to read, and this isn't me trying to brag but last year I read over 100 books (this year's 7 so far so I'm back to a normal rate), even then I always have music, or something on the telly (asmr, nature or train journeys or something) or even both. I find I'm never just doing one thing anymore, I watch TV on my laptop while playing a game - meaning I usually just watch stuff I've seen before, and play a game where I can constantly take breaks, I play stuff like cricket, the sims or football manager instead of anything I actually get immersed in. "A glimpse of light is all that it takes to illuminate the darkness." The society is placing heavier and heavier demands on people, especially those who are in professions that require high amounts of cognitive work, and the intensification of this trend has probably lead to the medicalisation of cognitive differences in people that are completely bening, but flare out as problems due to increasingly unrealistic requirements.Īnd that's not even getting into the amount of anxiety and depression that people are increasingly suffering from, and how it relates to the gloomy futures that younger generations are realistically expecting for themselves, as well as existential threats like environmental collapse and nuclear war, as well as environmental effects like pollution. Disabilities are recognised, diagnosed, and treated at much better rates than ever before, and more and more people who suffer from conditions like ADHD are getting help, whereas before similar problems were ignored, and more people suffering from them were excluded from society or coped in unhealthy ways. This is surely a complex topic, and I lack the expertise to say anything credible on it, but I've mused that there's a two-fold trend: This is probably among the only two or three good takes that can come out of this thread. we shall all live as one! - "Under a Serpent Sun" by At The Gates I have a bad feeling that our future generations are gonna miss out on listening to Pink Floyd's "Echoes" or watching The Godfather simply because they're too long. Whether it be people not wanting to listen to any song longer than 4 minutes or feel concerned about a movie that's longer than 1 hour and 30 minutes, people seemed more skewed towards the shorter stuff. I think this has to do with the way the media we consume in entertainment has gotten shorter. I can definitely agree with you on that one. If people have to click through to see something, they more than likely will not do it. My colleague and I experimented with making 60 second short films, shot in 9:16, specifically to be watched on phones, and we had SO many more views than we had for 3 minute shorts we had to embed a youtube link in. As someone that isn't exactly established in the industry, it's hard to get people scrolling on instagram or TikTok to stop for even 30 seconds to watch a trailer. One of the craziest things for me, personally, is as someone that works in film, realizing just how short-of-a-period-of-time you have to rope someone in. I try REALLY hard to not do this, but even for someone trying to be super cautious of it, I still find myself doing things like taking my phone out and checking my iMessages while walking when I get to a red light. ![]() If I am watching the ball game with one of my parents, the instant there is a lapse in the action (replay, commercial, whistle/stoppage) they reach for their phones and start scrolling. ![]() I even see it in my (almost) 70 year old parents. It's just how badly ALL of our attention spans have been affected. The only real rant I have about any of this has nothing to do with a specific age group. ![]()
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