Is the internet the death of literature?

>>9991523
Too late, film did that.

>>9991523
Not internet, exactly, but search engines, and the fact that they can take queries in forms of statements rather than questions.

>>9991523
But Job is difficult to summarize without it being hilarious. It only really works in expanded form.
Not to say that reddit posts aren't cringey, or worthy of reports when used as the OP image to a thread, just that this is overblown.

>>9991539
this.. search engines blur the line between knowledgeable and ignorant people, since most of information only takes a few seconds to look up.

People don’t rely on memory that much anymore

>>9991586
At a first glance.

The truth is the exact opposite. First of all, let's talk about what people consider knowledge:
1.) Information. Facts, opinions, links between facts and/or opinions. Example: "The educational role of science fiction is establishing priors for future interaction, so that new technology will be incorporated into our lifestiles and not become alien and disruptive".
2.) Circuitry. This can be defined as a way of thinking, connecting and processing the information. It can't be taught directly, but rather reconstructed through an information set. You read a book on political science and extrapolate the way it was written from what it is written about. Example: statement above sheds light on author's way of thinking about creativity as inserting oneself into the world.
An able brain extracts and adapts circuitries from sets of information, and develops own's circuitry as some combination of ones extracted.

Now, search engines are on the scene. While they allow you to access any information, in practice the information people search for is the one that's best adjusted to the circuitry they already possess. On the other hand, bits and pieces of it are so tiny no author's circuitry can be extracted from them, so we end up with a system of thinking that at the same time doesn't change and is extremely suspectible to alteration. Feedback loop between the consumers and producers incentives creativity to be adjustible, modular, easy-to-incorporate. What do we end up with?

1.) Furthering divide between esoteric and exoteric knowledge. Today's minds evolved so that they can devour information and retain existing circuitry, so ways of influencing it become more and more stealthy to avoid detection by immune systems.
2.) Furthering divide between generic and specific circuitry. Technofascist and ultra-liberal activist perfectly understand how the other side thinks, but both can't properly communicate with a 67 y.o. suburban grandma or a proper poet.

>>9991523
Why is this a bad thing? 4chan does the same dumb generalizations as jokes

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>>9991523
>The pinnacle of ancient Jewish poetry being transformed into a shitty Reddit post

The Book of Job is retarded

"were you there when I created the mountains and the oceans" "ye thought so"

>>9991709
Frog posters are lower than Redditors in my book.

>>9991715
job btfo

>>9991715
>missing the point

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>>9991717
t. normalfag

>>9991523
The rise of invisible style was the death of literature.