inquiry

CJ Eller's “Hyperlexia” ruminated thusly:

So we have to ask ourselves how to remember what we read here on the web – how to retain what is beneficial and use it in our study and in our lives. I wonder if we even realize what we are missing out on. The only thing that gets measured is how much new content gets published on the web every day. But do we know how much of that potential energy is wasted on taxed minds who will forget what they read moments after?

There has to be a better way.

I'm pretty sure we can count on survival-of-the-read-and-retained-what-was-most-important-to-survival-if-not-fullness-of-life to separate the Wheat Readers (e.g. of “enlightened essay(s)”) from the Chaff Readers (e.g. of “inane social media status”) over time.

(Of course, the latter will label the former “privileged” – probably including additional already broken-record adjectives pertaining to race and/or gender in the same breath (and people running as Democratic Party candidates for office in the United States will undoubtedly lead the charge to see who is the most clever at inventing the best such labels while “protesting” said “privileged”...))