Thank you so much for this wonderful interjection! I feel the same in so many ways. It is crazy the amount of things we as humans produce on a daily basis, and as you say, it feels like scrolling is just an inherent part of it. And the crazy thing is creating quality content takes time, but modern-era brains want quick fixes and disregard the hard work that goes into creating anything really. I am in academia and "publish or perish" is a real threat to your career, but the consequence of this non-stop publishing of academic papers is that no one will ever really read your papers. I have published a couple of papers and since then I am sure no one even read it. There is this wonderful quote from the author Milan Kundera in his book Unbearable lightness of being, "Sheets of paper covered with words pile up in archives sadder than cemeteries, because no one ever visits them..."
Sorry about this long comment, I think I even lost the plot a bit!
Apologizing for a long comment?! Come on, don't apologize for that 😀. I'm certainly not an academic but that seems - hard and weird.
Anyhow, I like that quote, I really do, I need to write it down, it is good. Thanks for sharing it.
Quotes are sometimes wonderful small packets (or pockets) of knowledge! I always have a quote either hanging in my brain, or written down on pieces of paper.