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A subscriber-only article by the wonderfully thought-provoking @joanwestenberg on the Westenberg Letter.
Content Saturation Has Inverted Cultural Memory
"We used to remember things because they were exceptional. Moments, dialogue, speeches, films and ideas etched themselves into culture by sheer force of quality. They were better-crafted. Better at sticking. Better at resonating.
But that was when culture moved slowly.
To be remembered, something had to stand out against silence.
Now it has to scream.
Content saturation has rewired the mechanics of cultural memory. When we’re faced with more stimuli than any brain has evolved to manage, our collective attention doesn’t coalesce around excellence.
It can’t.
There's too much.
So instead, it flocks to the repeatable, the clippable, the memetic. Cultural staying power has detached from quality and grafted itself onto transmissibility. If it can be misheard, clipped out of context, and reposted with rage emojis, it will be."
Westenberg never fails to impress with insight and challenging observations.
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A subscriber-only article by the wonderfully thought-provoking @joanwestenberg on the Westenberg Letter.
Content Saturation Has Inverted Cultural Memory
"We used to remember things because they were exceptional. Moments, dialogue, speeches, films and ideas etched themselves into culture by sheer force of quality. They were better-crafted. Better at sticking. Better at resonating.
But that was when culture moved slowly.
To be remembered, something had to stand out against silence.
Now it has to scream.
Content saturation has rewired the mechanics of cultural memory. When we’re faced with more stimuli than any brain has evolved to manage, our collective attention doesn’t coalesce around excellence.
It can’t.
There's too much.
So instead, it flocks to the repeatable, the clippable, the memetic. Cultural staying power has detached from quality and grafted itself onto transmissibility. If it can be misheard, clipped out of context, and reposted with rage emojis, it will be."
Westenberg never fails to impress with insight and challenging observations.
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Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:
'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.
The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
@Daojoan -
Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:
'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.
The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
@Daojoan -
Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:
'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.
The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
@Daojoan -
Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:
'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.
The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
@Daojoan -
Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:
'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.
The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
@Daojoan