i think about how readings and inferring subtext have both become something sort of lost in favour of "pure headcanon/all interpretations are equal" vs "author declared this canon" and how this extreme binary is why the public has so quickly taken to blind trust in AI
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which could mean anything
Kaban!
The problem with “show don’t tell” in film is that the average American cannot be reasonably trusted to infer the meaning of a work