The amount of people losing their shit over a mathematician saying "there are instances where 2+2=5" is why you will never be able to convince transphobes to stop oppressing trans people
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Steven Johnson's 2005 book Everything Bad Is Good For You talked about a shift in culture that signals our generation's growing comfort with "information overload" Straight exposition on TV shows is out of style, the direct "As You Know Bob" infodump
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Characters on TV "talk over the audience's head" to a far greater degree Just let the genius scientists have their conversation, deliberately use difficult jargon that you don't define, let the audience try to catch up
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This is critical to the success of nerd media from LotR to Star Wars. Dropping you into a world that seems lived in, and not explaining it, so you have to actively pursue the lore and get invested. (Works best if you did plan ahead at least a bit, unlike Star Wars.)
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This is also why they tend to start to get stale over time as the lore piles up
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I have a special love for speculative fiction book that hit the sweet spot of letting the reader figure things out while dropping enough context clues to put the pieces together. I hate long expositions, mostly. (Tokien gets a pass because reasons)
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