From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   In the spirit of these:   
      
   https://tilde.club/~oldernow/2024-05-10-20-24-05-perhaps-pure-te   
   t-is-the-best-walled-garden-of-all.txt   
   https://tilde.club/~oldernow/2024-05-10-20-57-39-the-textonly-revolution.txt   
      
   it hit me that while people have become wisely concerned   
   with the effect of "infinite scroll" on our psyche, their   
   faith in what is arguably the cornerstone of "the web"   
   prevents them from seeing that hypertext links aren't too   
   different than infinite scroll: they're infinite click.   
      
   Mr. Berners-Lee no doubt had the best of intentions, but   
   simply clicking to travel between collections of thoughts   
   is, well, *too* simple for animals whose growth is in   
   large part dependent on making efforts.   
      
   Whereas knowledge is one thing, *hard fought* knowledge   
   is at least an order of magnitude more.   
      
   So while I don't doubt increasing collective concerns   
   about links from a trust-ability point of view, I think   
   the bigger concern is how the ease of navigation between   
   collections of thoughts undermines their value.   
      
   In that context, I've decided to no longer create hypertext   
   links. In fact, I want to be as done with hypertext in   
   general as is possible without throwing any babies out   
   with it.   
      
   I don't want readers who arrive by way of a click, and   
   who are primarily focused on presentation. If they can't   
   do as much as copy and paste a link, they're likely too   
   stupid to understand what I'm saying anyway.   
      
   Similarly, I don't want readers who will only read my   
   screed if/when it looks pretty. Goodbye, Superficial   
   Suzies!   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)