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Sep 02
essay challenge: COVID-Issue
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The Effect of Social Media and Covid on Our Perception of Time.

Our brains are sculpted by the eras and cultures in which they were formed, therefore we have vastly different ways of processing contemporary experience. But it seems to me that with Covid and the rapid development of the internet, future generations are going to have a very different experience of something even as fundamental as time. In an era where a meme counts as an argument, it seems like the correlation between time and ideas might become warped. I have noticed that, in my own life, time has been moving at a peculiar pace. The lack of change in my day to day life has turned the past six months into a single extended moment. This experience has given me a very visceral notion of time’s malleability. I wonder how the near instantaneous, pictorial, symbolic method of communication that characterizes the direction modern language is headed, will effect a child who grows up emersed in it. I also wonder what effect a change in our collective perception of time will have of the grammatical construction of the English Language. Will the formal structure of our language modulate itself to fit the heightened speed of time?
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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Sep 02, 2020

    Omg, my essay style is so stiff and pretentious. Sorry.

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  1. thegreenone
    Sep 02, 2020

    Woah, this is deep stuff and not at all stiff and pretentious. Your ideas really intrigued me, such as the one regarding the future when "a meme counts as an argument."

    I also like your strong use of synonyms, such as malleability, visceral, and pictorial.

    Don't be so hard on yourself, you did an excellent job! (definitely worth extending since their is a lot of potential in this essay).

    no way a male poet?! yes way

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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Sep 03, 2020

    Thanks! Essay does come from the french verb to try:) and I would love to try to extend it!

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