people talk about how media literacy being at an all time low, but this right here is just the death of regular literacy
I would love to read the Lord of the Rings like this
Imagine gravity is fractal… because light is just a wave, and gravity is just a wave… So imagine there’s a big piece of glass that splits up gravity like a prism, so that there’s, like, blue gravity and yellow gravity. And then somebody gets hit by the red gravity, and it makes them super heavy, so they have super strength, but, like, they’re also really slow. And another guy gets hit by microwave gravity. So he’s trying to zap everybody, and just when he’s about to zap the main guy, we see a lady come out, and she turns out to be Ultraviolet Girl, and she has Super-Speed, so she beats him. And it, like, also gave her giant cans. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow.
Cool, now do this:
10,000 B.C: Understanding Earth’s Layers
Professor Challenger, who made the Earth scream with his pain machine in a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, gave a talk after mixing books on geology and biology. He said the Earth is like a body without organs. This means it has many different things moving around inside it.
But that was not the main point. He talked about something important that happens on Earth called stratification. This means there are layers, like belts, that form and organize things. These layers capture and hold things together, like black holes.
Professor Challenger read a sentence from a geology book. He said we need to remember it: “A surface of stratification is a plane of consistency lying between two layers.” The layers are strata and they come in pairs. The surface between them is a special area that connects them.
God is like a lobster with two claws. Strata come in pairs, and each layer has two parts. This double articulation means layers have two steps: first, they pick units from moving particles, and second, they make stable structures from these units.
In geology, the first step is sedimentation, which makes layers of sediment. The second step is folding, which turns sediment into rock.
obviously a lot is lost, but it exceeded my expectations to be honest
Everything must be smooth. Iron out those unsightly folds in my brain! Remove that texture from literature - blend it into a uniform paste!
Seems about right given the demographics they’re targeting.
“Why is the west falling behind China?”
Gee, maybe teach your people how to read for a start?
