“Immediate, aggregate access to all of pop culture has devalued it.” YES! The easy access to “anything” has absolutely changed our perception of media and devalued the effort put into its creation. It makes me sad.
What is worse is watching the kids consume culture from the 20th century, totally out of context and in tiny soundbites, on social media. All of the "best parts" of things we had to slog all the way through to understand what the best parts were. So much has been memeified without explanation, and the act of discovering these moments with your friends on a rented VHS tape, itself taken at face value, is lost. Its funny because I think about how I reflect on these things and feel like I am joining previous generations who railed against the things we enjoyed as kids, but man... stuff is moving faster then ever! I don't even know what my teenage daughter's recollection of discovery will be, because it is served up in infinite scroll to her 24-7.
“Immediate, aggregate access to all of pop culture has devalued it.” YES! The easy access to “anything” has absolutely changed our perception of media and devalued the effort put into its creation. It makes me sad.
What is worse is watching the kids consume culture from the 20th century, totally out of context and in tiny soundbites, on social media. All of the "best parts" of things we had to slog all the way through to understand what the best parts were. So much has been memeified without explanation, and the act of discovering these moments with your friends on a rented VHS tape, itself taken at face value, is lost. Its funny because I think about how I reflect on these things and feel like I am joining previous generations who railed against the things we enjoyed as kids, but man... stuff is moving faster then ever! I don't even know what my teenage daughter's recollection of discovery will be, because it is served up in infinite scroll to her 24-7.
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about. And the pace with which things are found and quickly left behind, nothing has time to get critical mass
Exactly! 👍