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The availability of fun and weird has redefined both fun and weird. What's relatively tame and normal by today's standards would have been groundbreaking only
by BLKNSLVR 4y ago
The availability of fun and weird has redefined both fun and weird.
What's relatively tame and normal by today's standards would have been groundbreaking only a few years ago.
Desensitisation is the issue, not a dearth of fun and weird.
A guilty pleasure of mine are some of those klrdubs YouTube videos. My daughter launches a series of them at me every now and then, and whilst many of them are so-so, a few of them are absolutely spot-on genius. Fun, clever, and weird.
Maybe accessibility contributes towards this desensitisation too? At any time that level of genius is at our fingertips. We're spoilt by the accessibility of the top 0.01% creative talents of humanity.
Maybe we also actively avoid some of the fun and weird because we know we'll get caught in a productivity destroying rabbit hole of fun and weirdness?
- rambambram 4y agoInteresting take. I think it definitely plays a role.