By skyforbes 
How speed culture is drowning out deep thinking in the age of scrolls
In an age where virality is currency, it’s easy to forget that some of the wisest minds in history worked in obscurity, moved slowly, and thought deeply.
Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher who laid the foundation for Western thought, never wrote a single book. He didn’t brand himself. He didn’t chase applause. In fact, most of what we know about him comes from the writings of his student, Plato. Socrates lived through dialogue real dialogue in city squares, asking uncomfortable questions and pressing for clarity where others settled for noise.
Today, we scroll through curated 30-second clips, consume “wisdom” in listicles, and seek validation in likes. We are constantly entertained but rarely truly engaged.
And Socrates? He wouldn’t be on TikTok.
Not because he wouldn’t know how but because he wouldn’t want to.
The Death of Depth
There’s a kind of pressure that exists now: to condense every thought into a soundbite, every insight into a visual hook, every truth into a trending format. Content is not just shared it’s optimized. Thinking is repackaged as “aesthetic productivity.”…