I'll never use tl;dr flippantly again

[silverflight8]

I was trying to find an article on medieval credit. This is what I found instead:

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Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[ed_rex]

My first thought was to wonder, were people smarter then than now?

The answer quickly came: no way!

But you've clearly unearthed a common ancestor to literatus bureaucratus and academius shitheadeus.

"... the Author flatters himself ..." indeed.

Re: Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[silverflight8]

He does sound remarkably pompous. I wonder if the actual article/survey/book longer than this title? Have some conciseness, man!

Re: Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[ed_rex]

I didn't even realize that was the title! Though, in retrospect, I ought to have; I've seen that sort of thing before. Like lead-based makeup and leeches for "hysteria" (yes, yes, maybe I'm mixing up eras/millienia — sue me!), "it was the style at the time".

But still, that's a remarkable example of the form (if only because you and i are remarking upon it).

Re: Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[silverflight8]

You know what I discovered--it's not the fault of the author (it's a pamphlet)--it's whoever entered the information. They literally copied down everything on that pamphlet/broadside/flyer into the title section of metadata. Right down to the footnote *facepalm*