The gossip that "feeds on sporadic and superficial reading"

“The average understanding of the reader will never be able to decide what has been drawn up from primordial sources with a struggle, and how much is just gossip. Moreover, the average understanding will not even want such a distinction, will not have need of it, since, after all, it understands everything.”

— Martin Heidegger in Being and Time (1927) p. 169. Translated from German by Joan Stambaugh.