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It’s fast food content. Convenient, cheap, fast, tasty, but also monotonous, unsophisticated, unhealthy, habit-forming. People consume more and more of it unti
by burnto 9mo ago
It’s fast food content. Convenient, cheap, fast, tasty, but also monotonous, unsophisticated, unhealthy, habit-forming.
People consume more and more of it until they get sick, and even then won’t stop.
- int_19h 9mo agoThis has already described much of pop culture for decades, though. Turns out that humans actually like slop.
- estearum 9mo ago"Turns out humans actually like heroin." -- antisocial scumbag justifying being an antisocial scumbag.
- int_19h 9mo agoWhat I'm saying is that if you want to make that analogy, be consistent and take it all the way. We are already on heroin, have been for a long time, this is just the age when it's cheap and abundant like never before.
- flowerthoughts 9mo ago> Turns out that humans actually like slop... ... more than being bored.
- int_19h 9mo agoNot really? For the past few decades even truly exotic and unusual preferences could be accommodated, but people still prefer certain things which we identify as "pop culture" - and it's mostly slop.