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When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games. I'm not sure anybody actua
by arka2147483647 5y ago
When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games. I'm not sure anybody actually did that. But it was plausible. You could sample more-or-less everything, and choose what you like.
Today there is so much of the stuff that you just can't.
You don't know whats out there, and you never will.
- sk0g 5y agoThat's a good thing, because the alternative interpretation is that even non-mainstream tastes and niches are being catered for, when that wasn't the case before.
- mitchdoogle 5y agoNo, it's never been plausible for a person to consume all new films, games, and especially not books. I suppose you could use some list, say the NYT Bestseller list and strive to read all those, which is somewhat plausible, but those lists are still around and probably more people now strive to do such things than in the past
- bigbillheck 5y ago> When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games. For video games, there are a couple years in the 1970s for which this might have been true, but between just the Atari 2600 and the Apple ][, there's no way anybody could have kept up with the flood. For books, I went over to ISFDB and searched for 'novel AND english AND 1980' which came up with eight hundred and twenty three results. Some of those are duplicates, but even a tenth of that is better than one book a week, and that's just one genre.