Tools for Storytelling
Video is a very powerful storytelling medium. If a picture speaks a thousand words, a video speaks 30k or 60k words per second.
That’s too much psychological power, seldom is this power used for good.
Digital Dark Age Hypnosis abounds, people are enslaved to consumption, rather than invigorated by being creative.
I need to import my notes from Obsidian here ... which itself is a storytelling tool
WeWrite aims to become the best storytelling medium, since WeWrite lowers the Barrier to Entry for storytelling. Not everyone has fancy cameras or editing skills. Everyone has words. Everyone can clomp about on their keyboard.
Vine was better than TikTok imo because it had the "retweet" functionality at its core, whereas TikTok is all about "the algorithm" (sus)
Songs are trojan horses for poems
Meaning-conveyance devices
Storytelling tools are reflection devices
Nobody reads anymore. We need to fix literacy rates