The reason people aren't reading, save for smut, is not fundamentally because the content-equivalent of heroin has made them complacent and stupid, but because the universalizing of the internet to cover all the bases of human interaction that were once readily accessible to anyone brave enough to walk out the door, are no longer present in this world. Everything else stems directly from this, including the thirst for social media fame that has made the world gambling addicts, or the dumbing of rhetoric worldwide.

When you post an article for discussion, everyone scrolls immediately down to the comments, because that's where the people are. They're retarded, but only because they're crushingly lonely, and ease of heart is a necessary component of deep contemplation.

>>24580906 (OP)
I don't interact with people that much and I noticed this too after reading interactive smut, the dopamine highs I get from that are incomparable to the days when I read LNs.

the reasons I scroll down in an article without reading it vary. first, it's written by chatgpt. second, I want to see whether someone commented saying the n word or am I going to be the first.