The 5-8 second thing is ( I think ) more of a TV broadcast measure-how long a show can stay focused on a particular point before it loses the interest of the least disciplined segment of the population ( who are the people most prone to impulsive action, and hence the prime target of advertisers ).
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"Picture, if you will, a boy of 19, still slumbering in the limbo of adolescence, having heard nothing but revolutionary blather about patriotism, Communism, ideology and propaganda all his life, falling headlong into a story of awakening desire, passion, impulsive action, love, of all the subjects that had, until then, been hidden from me, " writes the narrator.
23.
On 22 August, he met with Currier as well as the medical staff who had witnessed the events in each unit and expressed regret for his " impulsive actions . " Patton related to the medical staff a story of a friend from World War I who had committed suicide after " skulking "; he stated he sought to prevent any recurrence of such an event.
