I have similar thoughts in regards to the creative outputs of our various cultures and how we'll deal with that - as creatives, as fans, as critics, etc. When

I have similar thoughts in regards to the creative outputs of our various cultures and how we'll deal with that - as creatives, as fans, as critics, etc. When I was young, it seemed impossible to me to think that someone could know ALL of recorded music, or ALL of cinema, because there was so much of it. But there really isn't _that_ much. Not as of the 1990s. And there are music and film buffs who have encyclopedic knowledge of these things, who impress me to this day - if at least for the dedication of time, mindspace, and memory. But we're at a stage where the output could potentially surpass a single human's ability to input. Where it might be impossible for a person, not only to hear all the music in a single genre, but in a single decade. It's possible that there would be so much music made in a single genre, in a single decade, that a person could not know all of it. That's amazing to me. It's something we haven't experienced collectively - an unfathomable mass of creative output. The potential to hear a new song every 5 minutes of every day of the rest of your life. What does music critique look like in that world? What does fandom look like? How do the pretentious maintain their imagined status if their pedestals are too short? I love the idea that a musician could make a living from the proceeds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of fans, whom most in the world would have never heard of. It's a scale our current culture can't comprehend. I marvel at the potential and consider it as beautiful, scary, and liberating as seeing thousands of galaxies in a pinhead-sized portion of the night sky.