A lot of human effort is required to create something original, no matter the intended outcome. As my art-critic friend Orit Gat once told me, partly joking but also serious, you should look at a painting for as long as it took the artist to paint it. Flipping through so much incoherently assembled content in our feeds, we don’t have the opportunity to assimilate it, to learn and understand, much less pass on that understanding to others. That encouraged shallowness of consumption contributes to the overall flatness of culture in Filterworld.
