I wonder if any noticeable group of people are retreating to paper journals or letter circles again. Probably not, but you never know.

To books, yes! 100%!

"This is the world we live in" is a good excuse to never right any wrongs.

It’s not. It’s a recognition that you have to act within the world as it exists today.

That doesn’t mean you can’t work to change the world, and in fact in order to do so you first need to see how it actually is.

But it does also means you need to decide which battles to fight.

The comment literally just said "you can't worry about it, it's the world we live in". That's the point, you can't just use the second part as an excuse to not fight battles or changing. Because that sort of requires worrying about things.

That's precisely my problem: the only alternative is worse because no one would benefit.

You can’t really blame the blogger for that though.

Letting a AI learn from your content devalues it as they can regurgitate it for a few dollars a month.