Ew, are we post-literate?
5/22/202626 min
In this episode from last year, we explain how a return to orality is frying our politics and our brains.
This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers and Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Denise Guerra, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images.
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First 90 secondsSean Rameswaram· Host0:00
Did you hear Wednesday's episode of Today Explained from Vox? We called it Everything is Clips Now because when you open up your social media and start scrolling, you've probably noticed that everything is clips, clips of podcasts, clips of TV shows, clips of movies, clips of sports. Our guest called it the TLDR-ification of the entire internet.
Speaker 10:20
Because it kind of truncates everything we make, and it all goes down to we need a way for people to discover our content. And right now, the way to get people to discover the content is to make clips of it, no matter what it is.
Sean Rameswaram· Host0:36
One of the things we're not doing when we're watching all those clips is reading. We made a show about that, too. But we also, also, also made a show about what not reading is doing to our brains, our politics, and our potential to connect with each other now and in the future. And we're gonna bring you that show once again today. Enjoy.
Noel King· Host0:57
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