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@charliejane@wandering.shopMy latest newsletter is about J.J. Abrams' famous "Mystery Box" TED Talk, in which he claimed "mystery is more important than knowledge."
Our politics are all Mystery Box now. It's all rabbit holes and conspiracy theories, all the way down. The Mystery Box ate our world.
https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/its-all-jj-abrams-fault-not-really/
Happy Dancing · It's All J.J. Abrams' Fault! (Not Really.)
@charliejane This explains a lot.
@charliejane that TED talk made me fully understand what I hate about his storytelling, why I always feel like it's a bait and switch. But he's like "everyone loves delicious bait, so I just feed people bait forever and there's never any pay off, yay! Bait!"