I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I’ve noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they’ll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what “message” a fictional movie has being discussed over and over, but none of that matters, because it’s all saying and no doing!
But talking out loud with words isn’t action? I broadly agree with you, but by that logic it deconstructs the statement entirely.
If typing words is action, then so it’s speaking, so the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.
Except actions and words both matter so I think the saying is garbo.