LoL the thinking ear is so cute XD

My dog is meant to have semi cropped ears but when she's thinking/observing they somehow become almost fully pricked (one fully the other about 97% with just the very tip still flopping over). One day I might be able to get a photo of it.

our social media habits have turned us into broadcasters

Yeh this definitely didn't help. Back when I was at uni a couple of decades ago I did observe that "everyone" was intensely far more interested in talking than listening (I was one of those once) and most of the time "listening" seemed to be more impatiently waiting for the other person to shut the hell up so you could keep talking/impress everyone with your witty comeback than actually listening.

Some of it is an adhd thing; I have in Youngest, he is much better about it now that he's older but even he has said sometimes it's "incredibly difficult to stop yapping" even when he can see that the other person isn't interested or he eventually cottons on that he's been monopolising all the air in the room. I probably was the same at his age without realising it.

Other people I'm not so sure, maybe entitled gits or something, I have met people who seem utterly convinced that they should be the only ones talking and nobody else knows anything at all and should absolutely just shut up and be told things and never ever respond in any fashion.

Many seem to overvalue getting a donut first and undervalue the time it takes, or the effort, or the disappointment

I think the overvaluing getting the product has to be done because the people doing it might not be able to cope with the massive blow to their ego otherwise. Which makes me wonder how many people genuinely enjoy that kind of thing vs how many people just say they do to aggressively defend their egos. Kind of like the number of people who claim that they (actually) love stuff like hiking and camping vs the people who say they do (to impress other people/seem worldly/more interesting/etc).