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by dragonwriter 3144 days ago
While it's perhaps counterintuitive, audiences often respond better (particularly in advance, where a title has to do it's work) to framing things in grounded concrete terms that are, as you point out, overly specific, rather than generalized abstractions that end up seeming ungrounded. Now, for some segment of the audience that works less well after the fact, but it's usually a minority and, perhaps more importantly, its after the fact.