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This article is making a lot of assumptions that I'm not sure are correct. For example, it claims older music and older movie franchises are gaining in populari
by causality0 4y ago
This article is making a lot of assumptions that I'm not sure are correct. For example, it claims older music and older movie franchises are gaining in popularity for the same pervasive cultural reason. That's an assumption, especially because he only mentioned two categories of artistic endeavor. What about others? Old books vs new books? Old video games vs new video games? Painting, sculpture, architecture?
I can't point to numbers that say he's wrong, but for my whole life I have never felt like I had access to a smaller variety of media than I had before. It's just not on billboards. It's more individualistic. None of my friends read the same books or listen to the same bands as each other.
- ghaff 4y agoYeah. We probably know some of the reasons action movie franchises (in particular) are big. Budgets have gotten huge and predictable effects-laden action franchises are very important for the international market and theater goers apparently flock to them in the US as well. The good news is there's lots of choice if that's not your thing.