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"Today I couldn’t even tell you the prime time lineup of any network." This observation really hit home, and I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure what the implic

• wussboy 4y ago
  We didn't lose it, so much as we gave it away when we had the opportunity. The choice provided by the Internet -> streaming dissolved that glue as each of us chose what to watch according to our own preference. I think there is a larger phenomena at play here. We are learning that if every human has complete freedom to choose where they get the information that forms their intellectual environments, our society becomes more fragmented and the people in those societies become more separated from the people physically close to them. It's almost like humans need some constraints in order to form robust and resilient communities/society. Intuitively this makes sense, as our ancestors which gave us our society had (from our perspective) incredibly uniform intellectual environments.
• xen2xen1 4y ago
  The same could be said of radio stations to Spotify, Bandcamp and the like. Once upon a time everyone listened to the same radio programs because that's all there was, then records came.. Technology has been splitting us into separate cultures hard for a good long while now. Probably even created the idea of a teenager.