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=== Kyla Scanlon’s argument === | === Kyla Scanlon’s argument === | ||
Kyla Scanlon is a whip-smart 25 year old who has | Kyla Scanlon is a whip-smart 25 year old content creator who, with unusual haste, has built a large following posting short form videos about investing and finance. Her content is funny, ironic, learned, saturated with leading-edge memery and it's ''fast'': delivered at a gallop, with frenetic jump cuts that speak to the multi-channel, hyperlinked , always-on dot-dash attention spans that we are told are the thing for the next generation. Her delivery is so quick and she pivots so fast it’s hard to keep up, let alone mull over or subject to sober reflection that you wonder whether you're having your pocket picked or just being bamboozled into admiring acquiescence at the energy and brio of the delivery. | ||
So reading her blog, — still infused with wit and eclectic references — no doubt scanlan was an excellent student — but where the reader gets to set the pace or consumption. It doesn't hold up so well. | |||
Being of Generation Zer — just — it is not surprising scanlon sides with her cohort , particularly seeing as her own career today is more or less the millennial experience. Scanlon earns a good crust making fun videos and doing podcasts. She is no better placed to speak for her generation then the boomers — less, in fact, because boomers and generation Xers are their parents. | |||
agrarian societies people worked during daylight hours. Great! | agrarian societies people worked during daylight hours. Great! | ||