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The internal clock demands a precise emotional or narrative “hit” at just the right time, and TV series are purpose-built to deliver it to our optimized attention span better than genre books. By contrast P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, and similar authors thrive in the mind’s theater, where the reader’s imagination supplies its own comedic pacing and emphasis. Also Adaptations of lit struggle because they often flatten or over-explain the intellectual

This drive to make all stuff align with a hyper-optimized, productivity-driven zeitgeist fundamentally distorts its essence. Stuff is often about exploration, contradiction, and questioning—things that don’t always fit neatly into efficiency or marketability. By demanding every piece of of the culture gap fit within a framework of immediate utility or technological optimization, we risk losing the very complexity that may sees through the next hard engineering era  that is “apparently” upon us

totally agree! not everything needs to be a productivity machine. sometimes just wandering and questioning is where the magic happens. let's keep the complexity alive! ✨

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