No, a 30 second tiktok clip cannot give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can. That is such a silly thing to say, that I can only imagine you heard it on tiktok.
To play devil's advocate, it has become common to simply read a plot synopsis on something like Wikipedia rather than engage with the book/movie/show/etc. be it for lack of time or interest. This brings one up to speed with the content of the media and is often interesting enough to be worth doing while also taking 1/1000th of the investment. Such a synopsis could be reasonably condensed into a thirty second video. Obviously this is not an equivalent experience to engaging with a 300 page book, but the information conveyed is undeniably the same type of information. Having such information packed so densely, if imperfectly, was unheard of even twenty years ago.
You can summarize Margin Call with a paragraph, but in no way capture the spirit of the movie and the various implied subplots. If you don't care about a movie or a book, don't consume it or just read a summary. But don't pretend you've done the actual watching/reading.
> A 30 second tiktok clip can give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can, but it cuts to the chase, and doesn't bury the lead.
Perhaps, but if that is true I highly doubt that you can actually absorb the information in 30 seconds. Doubly so if you quickly move on to the next thing, as tiktok pushes you to do (I guess? haven't used myself).
>A 30 second tiktok clip can give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can, but it cuts to the chase, and doesn't bury the lead.
I'm sorry, this isn't just wrong, it's laughably wrong, and if this view is popular I can see why there's so little nuance in most people's understanding
A video game in the 90s was 10x more exciting and immersive than most books, to me.
Today it's at insane levels of over-stimulation.
A 30 second tiktok clip can give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can, but it cuts to the chase, and doesn't bury the lead.
Not only life-lessons or hacks either, teenagers are producing entire short stories that follow classical formats of drama and comedy.
What we thought was insightful and revolutionary knowledge is now conveyed to a 9 year old at breakfast.