Overloaded: Is there simply too much culture?
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Overloaded: Is there simply too much culture?
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#2FOMO: the article
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#3Even in 2012, you could have taken a sliver of mainstream media like "vampire fantasy novels" and failed to read everything in a single year. I think the author simply had a narrower view of what was "important".
Yes, media is now more accessible and a few key areas (TV in particular) have increased output 3 or 4 fold. But I think its likely that as the author's social circle has grown the author is aware of a greater variety of media that they weren't consuming. Additionally, most people have less time to consume things as they age. These are old problems.
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#4It's just one of the costs of individualism. With so much to consume, instant personal choice, and no consistent conduit, there is little chance we have all seen the same stuff.
A way around it is explicitly discussing the issue with mates. I keep some close friends who keep in close parity because we all understand that if we don't all play the same game we will end up playing nothing together. Rando internet friends are great but you don't always get that consistency of long term discussion and a deeper relationship.
We still reach outside of the group of course, I play other games too, but if X wants to play Sea of Thieves then we all jump in else they won't do the same for you when you want to play your game with them.
I think this kind of small scale community building helps a lot, and helps you get the benefits of the internet without the banality of the "all psuedo-anonymous hive mind"
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#5How one can misspell "entertainment" as "culture"? And the answer is clearly yes, the west consumes too much of it. The stress leads to distraction gluttony which leads to detachment from the real life which leads to stress as one can hardly navigate efficiently the social hive when his mental picture of it is taken from movies, shows, social media, etc.
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#6For me culture means Michelangelo, Umberto Eco and Shakespeare, not House of Cards, Girls, Squid Game.
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#7How one can misspell "entertainment" as "culture"? And the answer is clearly yes, the west consumes too much of it. The stress leads to distraction gluttony which leads to detachment from the real life which leads to stress as one can hardly navigate efficiently the social hive when his mental picture of it is taken from movies, shows, social media, etc.
The same thing happened to the word "meme". It went from "unit of mimicry and replication" to "funny image macro on social media".
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#8How one can misspell "entertainment" as "culture"? And the answer is clearly yes, the west consumes too much of it. The stress leads to distraction gluttony which leads to detachment from the real life which leads to stress as one can hardly navigate efficiently the social hive when his mental picture of it is taken from movies, shows, social media, etc.
The same thing happened to the word "meme". It went from "unit of mimicry and replication" to "funny image macro on social media".
Are you referring to "entertainment" or "culture" ?
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#9For me culture means Michelangelo, Umberto Eco and Shakespeare, not House of Cards, Girls, Squid Game.
But are you overloaded?
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#10For me culture means Michelangelo, Umberto Eco and Shakespeare, not House of Cards, Girls, Squid Game.
Pretty sure Umberto Eco would be amused by being placed in that company.