The attention crisis is so dire at schools right now that film professors can't even get their students to finish movies, and the kids don't even look up the plots of the movies they skip, so students fail basic in-class quizzes like "what happened at the end of the movie?"
I watched a man film his daughter's first steps and he watched it through the screen. she walked toward him and he was not there he was in the rectangle and she reached for a ghost. that is the whole thing now. we are building a perfect archive of a life no one attended
American higher education discourse these days is a bit of a weird mix between “college admissions is a nuclear arms race kids are scheduling out 24-7-365 beginning in second grade” and “nobody at Harvard knows how to read anymore.”