I don’t know when this started or if it’s always been a thing that I was too ignorant or naïve to notice previously but there is a rhetoric present in both online writing and even among people who I hear speak upon earth, like “This is serious, I’m serious, you need to listen to me.”
It is serious. You are serious. I hear you. Everything that you’re saying is meant to follow logically from the last word. There is no hook nor crook in your demonstration. Commemeration is in order and your rank will increase pursuant to the status of those in attendance who are qualified to do so.
I, on the other hand—I’m sorry—I just got word that someone else has something to say on the exact matter you just divulged on. In fact, look they’re right behind you.
The banality that I’m referring to is what you’d expect from every essay, every lecture marshaled and even forms lesser than either like Twitter threads. There is a stuffiness. I worry I even affect it. First you write a sentence that becomes a paragraph introducing the matter at hand. Then you wring your hands around its characteristics for another 5 paragraphs or more either delving or diverting depending on how adept you want to seem. And finally that all coalesces with wit or calls to action. All forth to the front.
The remedy may be to start strong and take the reader or listener nowhere.
When public speaking I try to be brief about this. I don’t have any idea what is meant to logically follow from my spur of intrigue and excitement. My hope is that you do. This is exhausting for us both, I’m sure.
I know I am letting you down. I appear to be literate and have some control over the English language but don’t let that fool you. Or wait a week for me to pick up where I left off.
All the worries over what AI is going to do certain arts and crafts—I find it all hard to care about. A lot of what was once novel about human writing is exhaust.
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