Part of the reason that politicians have come to believe that the public is stupid and has no attention span is that television had a 30-second attention span. So you had to assume your audience remembered nothing, knew nothing, and could flip out to a different channel at any moment. Plus the bandwidth was insanely expensive. Now all that is gone. I think that will be a revolution in political discourse.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Part of the reason that politicians have come to believe that the public is stupid and has no attention span is that television had a 30-second attention span. So you had to assume your audience remembered nothing, knew nothing, and could flip out to a different channel at any moment. Plus the bandwidth was insanely expensive. Now all that is gone. I think that will be a revolution in political discourse." in the context of ""GOP Debate 1: Highlights, Lowlights & Reaction with Jordan Peterson | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report" (at 37m24s), The Rubin Report, 24 Aug 2023." to mean that wisdom is timeless.