I think articles like this, and many of the affirmation responses, suffer from a few fallacies: It ignores that the majority of people wouldn’t actually watch

I think articles like this, and many of the affirmation responses, suffer from a few fallacies: It ignores that the majority of people wouldn’t actually watch this or want to watch it. Most people would watch more conventional content, much as they do today. This leads to a lot of people seeing something historically interesting and conflating it as a norm of adventurousness. In reality, many of them ignore the avante garde stuff on TV today. So what it leads to is people thinking TV today is safe. But that’s because they’re safe people, and because they can’t consider the wide range of content that existed then, they think that any notable example is representative. In reality, there’s lots of experimental content today. Look at many children’s shows like Amazing World of Gumball or Adventure Time that is straight up bonkers for adventurous content. On the adult end of the spectrum, there’s shows like Atlanta and Pen15. And that’s just the mainstream content. There’s so much adventurous stuff out there right now that I’m honestly flummoxed how anyone can hold this view seriously. IMHO people are too eager to glorify the past because it‘s an easy hit of dopamine . I’d posit that those same people are likely just too safe in their choices and wish they weren’t, but either don’t know how to discover it, or worse, don’t want to.