re: Open letter to fans in TS Sat. nite...and the Negatards who weren't

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This "tl;dr" shite is really making the Rant unbearable.

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Not to me...I actually kind of like it. To me its sorta like "the mark of the dumbass"...kinda lets you know who they are in shorthand form. I mean if your attention span is too short to read 4 or 5 paragraphs then any assertion you make here or anywhere else will always be irrelevant. How can you be expected to have any useful insight if you can't read anything but one sentence explanations?

Very few problems or solutions can be explained in 20 words or less. If you truly have a point to make about coaching, players, strategy etc., reading and posting in longer form is the only thing that makes sense. How likely is it that such a person reads strategic explanations from experts, or reads articles to gain outside perspectives from national writers. Do they think they were just "born" with a head full of "expert" information related to all subjects? How does one gain any useful knowledge without consuming it in long form? Is there some new shortcut to learning physics that I don't know about?

I do understand it. I surely thought I knew everything when I was 22 and was absolutely sure that old farts of 55 had been passed by in terms of the technology us new guys were aces at. The younger generation, to ours and their detriment IMO, has been trained to take and give out information only in sound bites. This makes it difficult for them to have anything more than surface insight.

So from that standpoint, as soon as they type "tl,dr" I know that almost without fail, I am both smarter and have consumed more pertinent information, than they have in their lifetimes. So as one of my hero's used say..."I pity the fool"!