Reading requires understanding how words connect to create meaning. Video is a blink. Podcasts, while verbal, also are a blink. Those of us who are readers are being replaced. Most readers, will miss the conclusion or inference of your post. Complexity is for the thinkers. Thinkers have background upon which to build their thoughts. How much time do you have to explain Kennedy without being interrupted by conspiracy? Think about it, this is the tool of our conversation.
I remember taking crossroads to cram for tests and spending all night playing chess with a guy who had returned from Nam explaining his catharsis. The B or C I got on the exam was incidental. The conversation has lasted a lifetime. I conversed with the author.
When I read, I ask questions that hopefully, the author will answer. It's hard to think of questions, never mind contemplate the significance of what's being said in the staccato of our world.
Think about the pressure on journalists to accommodate the interviewee and catch them in the lie at a moment's notice without sufficient background on the bamboozle.
We, who think we have it together, rely upon reflection. How many of us could analyze well, the information around the madness we get thrown at us every day.
We, like every one else need time to digest. We have allowed ourselves to manage with little time.
We respond emotionally.
We don't understand the movie maker relying on what's in his tool box.
We need time to talk out that we, as humans, are humans.
Insanity is a cry for help. There is a lot of insanity that sanity has to fix.
Happy fixing.