peers with monsters on Nostr: Dr. NEETzsche, GED npub1ey8w7…qtjld Kiwifarms as presented by the most ...
Dr. NEETzsche, GED (npub1nl9…axrx) npub1ey8w7d7gelz6f59ujztn73yy72sl4d6lmlyktslrlhmglp94xp0seqtjld (npub1ey8…tjld) Kiwifarms as presented by the most insufferable, vapid woman (aka true crime podcasts) sounds like a chore.
I'm not thoroughly convinced that content hasn't always sucked, that it was ever good, and that some combination of nostalgia/survivors bias makes everyone only remember the decent stuff. Maybe everything is such a wasteland now that it has warped my perspective into entertainment doomerism, but I dunno.
I have an alternate theory on entertainment (and apply it to basically everything) that nobody makes good things because no one cares. No one cares about music, so great music isn't made. No one cares about art so great art isn't made. No one cares about film so great film isn't made. You can reapply this to general decay of community e.g. or whatever you like, but that no one invests any effort, because it isn't rewarded, ever.
From a logistical perspective I blame the democratization of content creation through the internet and digital technology, because it made content (media/art/literature/music) no longer scarce, and infinitely accessible. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be there. Put another way, the area under the curve of content amount versus quality is relatively constant, and we stretched out the base by making more content overall, and easier to experience, thereby lowering the general quality.
You can make the same argument about musical performances, they can be infinitely reproduced just as they were because of recordings, and how cheap digital information is to copy, infinitely.
Movies too, you can see at home, now you don't even need to have space for tapes, you can access them infinitely through the internet.
All this makes these less special, less exclusive, and thus, worse, because they fade into the background. People watch television, movies, music just in the background to fill the silence because of the low barrier of access. And because it has become trivial, then no one gives a fuck, after a while. And if no one gives a fuck, if the only purpose becomes to make money, and you can make enough, or even plenty of money with slop, then just make lots and lots of slop.
tl;dr I think we are in an overall content drought in all forms, entirely of our own making
I'm not thoroughly convinced that content hasn't always sucked, that it was ever good, and that some combination of nostalgia/survivors bias makes everyone only remember the decent stuff. Maybe everything is such a wasteland now that it has warped my perspective into entertainment doomerism, but I dunno.
I have an alternate theory on entertainment (and apply it to basically everything) that nobody makes good things because no one cares. No one cares about music, so great music isn't made. No one cares about art so great art isn't made. No one cares about film so great film isn't made. You can reapply this to general decay of community e.g. or whatever you like, but that no one invests any effort, because it isn't rewarded, ever.
From a logistical perspective I blame the democratization of content creation through the internet and digital technology, because it made content (media/art/literature/music) no longer scarce, and infinitely accessible. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be there. Put another way, the area under the curve of content amount versus quality is relatively constant, and we stretched out the base by making more content overall, and easier to experience, thereby lowering the general quality.
You can make the same argument about musical performances, they can be infinitely reproduced just as they were because of recordings, and how cheap digital information is to copy, infinitely.
Movies too, you can see at home, now you don't even need to have space for tapes, you can access them infinitely through the internet.
All this makes these less special, less exclusive, and thus, worse, because they fade into the background. People watch television, movies, music just in the background to fill the silence because of the low barrier of access. And because it has become trivial, then no one gives a fuck, after a while. And if no one gives a fuck, if the only purpose becomes to make money, and you can make enough, or even plenty of money with slop, then just make lots and lots of slop.
tl;dr I think we are in an overall content drought in all forms, entirely of our own making