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I've read lots of Zizek as a high schooler. This doesn't even come close to how dense some of his writing can be, I'm sitting here drunk on a few beers and it was a simple read. I think lots of people are actually illiterate.

https://www.adorableandharmless.com/p/college-english-majors...

(People [sorry, no citation] are saying this study is bad and invalid, but I think maybe English majors should be able to manage a bit better than that, even if it is Bleak House, and even if they were blindsided with it, and especially if they plan to become English teachers. So I still get at least some qualitative value out of it myself.)

Soon!

Esaias Tegnér (Sweden, 1782-1846): Det dunkelt sagda är det dunkelt tänkta.

“That which is dimly said is dimly thought."

I can only consume information where each nugget of truth can be contained in 160 characters. Nothing extra, each insight must be a atomic and self contained, an element in the larger tweet stream. When I pull my phone out to scroll instagram in the middle of reading your piece, I get lost if it's not formatted like this.

zizek does regularly do a bit of meandering but damn, does everything need to read like a chatGPT summary?