This is one of the problems with the 'Medium formula', I feel. A formula that now wears a shiny new pair of jackboosts [sic]. It has a tendency to treat readers as simpletons or small children, to spoon feed them a conclusion that they must draw.

Now, I'm not sure that the perception of the majority of readers here as simpletons is necessarily incorrect.

But there is a problem with the editorial antagonism sometimes shown or implied towards a piece that suggests a number of different perspectives on a topic, without dictating any one of them as the correct basis for the (dumb) reader's actions, or that sets out a number of interesting tangram pieces, and invites the reader to assemble them for themself.

And treating that approach to presenting ideas among (supposedly intelligent) adults as being somehow frivolous or lesser does the platform no favours.

I think that both editors and curators are at times guilty of that schoolteacherly attitude.