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> Older culture is "boring" because it doesn't follow the standard tropes, and that makes it incomprehensible. Hrm, I'm not sure what culture you're thinking o
by rsynnott 1y ago
> Older culture is "boring" because it doesn't follow the standard tropes, and that makes it incomprehensible.
Hrm, I'm not sure what culture you're thinking of, but many genres are considerably _less_ trope-bound today than fifty years ago. Partly just because there is just _so much more stuff_. It is far easier to publish books. The end of the top-40 system as a curb on what music anyone actually gets to hear has allowed for far more diversity there. Total TV output today must be at least 10 times what it was 50 years ago, maybe more. All of this allows more experimentation.