Netflix is useful, I guess, but only if you’re willing to compromise. I can’t find there everything I’m interested in, and if you can afford only one streaming

Netflix is useful, I guess, but only if you’re willing to compromise. I can’t find there everything I’m interested in, and if you can afford only one streaming service, you’re compromising your intellectual curiosity and allowing someone else control how wide your world should be. There’s no single company that can provide such a service and humanity cultural heritage should not be ephemeral. The possibilities digital archiving provides are huge and consequential and Netflix and other services like it are the complete opposite of what’s in our own best interest. In many ways, this is what American capitalism is all about. Containing and replacing everything with something that you can make people pay for. From natural food to cultural artifacts. That’s why the USA is where it is today. They’ve been fed this myth of exceptionalism to cover for extreme and dangerous form of cultural poverty.