I know, I know...

I tend to recommend people several times in a row (case in point, Fred, Fred and Fred), but when I run across something sufty-gee-whiz-nifty I tend to want you to read it.  If it happens to be every article an author wirtes for two months (Ol Remus...) then that's just how it works.

Speaking of "how it works," the Incredible Hulk discusses the Hulk Movies and explaining the joke and why articles can and mostly should be really, really long.

#7. - SOME THEN ARGUE "Fine, if you're so convinced the writing works, it's still way too long to read." HULK ARGUE THE WRITING NOT LONG, THE SUBJECTS ARE LONG. THE WORLD IS FULL OF EVERYONE WALKING AROUND TRYING TO PAINT A PICTURE OF REALITY IN THE THE SHORTEST, LEAST COMPREHENSIVE STROKES POSSIBLE. WHICH ISN'T ALWAYS PRODUCTIVE. THIS WILL SOUND ABSURD HULK REALLY JUST TRIES TO TAKE AS LITTLE TIME AS POSSIBLE TO DELVE INTO SUBJECTS WITHOUT CUTTING CORNERS. THINK ABOUT HOW BROAD MOST OF THESE TOPICS ARE. A LOT OF THEM COULD BE FULL-ON BOOKS. SOMETIMES HULK EVEN CAME CLOSE! (HULK'S ACTION COLUMNS WITH TOM TOWNEND TOOK UP 120+ WORD PAGES). SO YUP, THEY'RE LONG! BUT LONG THINGS ARE WORTH IT SOMETIMES TOO. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO BE TOO RARE NOWADAYS. AND IF YOU ARGUE "the internet is for short stuff!" HULK DISAGREE. BOOKS, PAPER, PAGES, ARE FINITE. THE INTERNET IS ENDLESS. HULK CAN LINK TO REAL LIVE VIDEOS YOU CAN INTERACTIVE AND WE CAN COMMENT TOGETHER. THE INTERNET IS NOT SHORT. IT'S ONLY LIMIT IS OUR MINDS.

I really approve of this sort of message.  One of the things I've debated with myself is whether average people have always thought in 140 character units, or if it's a recent adaptation to texting and twitter, and similar bullshit. 

I don't mean that people think "okay, I've got 140 characters to get this thought out, I'd better make it a good one."  Rather, I have noticed that most of the people I deal with tend to have a very shallow understanding of what's going on.  It's possible that they think more deeply about parts of their lives that don't overlap with mine, but I don't see any evidence thereof.  Daily, literally daily, I am astounded at how little even the highly educated participate in their own lives.

This isn't some lame reach-back to high school and the "carpe diem" t-shirts that were popular back in the misty dawn of time.  If anything, people have been carpe-ing too much diem, and ignoring the day after this diem.  Not only no future time orientation, no concept that there is such a thing.