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This Steve Jobs style of laconism is not productive speech. It does not arouse reciprocation, and it looks mind-blind to the cognitive cost of sustained conversation.

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This Hegelesque style of verbosity is not productive speech. It does entice me to reply though, but it looks snobbish and manicured.

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As randycupertino pointed out, my comment was about teenagers being ridiculous. That is hardly newsworthy, but the extent to which the social-media-industrial complex has elevated this nonsense, should be.

Society, by dismantling the old illiberal structures (which I agree, were pretty bad) and offering no real substitutes, has done great harm to its future generations.

I thought he was saying how the teenagers are ridiculous.

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