What is the densest general interest writing you know of (ie that does not rely on either specialized jargon or require specialized background information on the part of the reader)? Most general-purpose meaning packed into the fewest general purpose words.
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knee-jerk answerhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/956460114508001281 …
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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvMy favorite essay of all time was written in 2011, and pretty much predicted the inevitability of today's culture wars (because it happened throughout history over and over again with the advent of each new piece of new media tech) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information … pic.twitter.com/m7qBdier6VShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
but seeing
@danlistensto mention Nabokov and Borges – yeah – Balzac, Dostoeyevsky, Tolstoy, Proust1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
honestly Borges felt like a cheat response due to intentionally fractal narrative structure
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what's denser than this? checkmatehttps://twitter.com/dril/status/922321981 …
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I actually don’t get why dril is famous. I think you need a lot of background context to understand what he’s getting at, so disqualified by my criteria
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at the risk of overanalyzing, I think it's like... the persona's incoherence and irreverence allows the author to parody, mock and shit on everything all at once while being simultaneously impervious to criticism. it's refreshingly senselesshttps://twitter.com/dril/status/1035887170832089093 …
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this one is masterful, where do you even start, lol. I get tickled imagining the reactions of every "serious" person if they were forced to read it – obama, trump, peterson, harris, musk, taleb... whoever. just cracks me up. even diogenes etchttps://twitter.com/dril/status/1030909212975489024 …
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This feels like something other than density. More like degree of non sequiturness.
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