It’s important to internalize that the intellectual world lives in the attention economy, like eveything else.
Just like “content creators” on social platforms think hard about capturing and keeping attention, so do intellectuals and academics. Clarity and rigor is a part of that.
No one has time, energy, (or crayons, as the saying goes) for half-baked ramblings on a blog or forum somewhere.
It’s important to internalize that the intellectual world lives in the attention economy, like eveything else.
Just like “content creators” on social platforms think hard about capturing and keeping attention, so do intellectuals and academics. Clarity and rigor is a part of that.
No one has time, energy, (or crayons, as the saying goes) for half-baked ramblings on a blog or forum somewhere.