Or maybe they just don't want to read a long form analysis on something?
I also enjoy the series. But sometimes my friends send me things and I'm like, "not gonna read all of that."
Just because you're friends don't want to invest the same amount of time that you want to invest in your own personal enrichment doesn't mean they're getting stupid.
It's more of a meta point to me. I get that this series isn't landing for some people but the meta-observation is that given something of roughly equal substantiveness as before, these friends' motivations for long form content and discussion seem to have atrophied, perhaps largely due to the addition of the AI summary reality cipher to their lives.
I also enjoy the series. But sometimes my friends send me things and I'm like, "not gonna read all of that."
Just because you're friends don't want to invest the same amount of time that you want to invest in your own personal enrichment doesn't mean they're getting stupid.