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We are drowning in abundance while starving for novelty.
Twenty years ago, “popular media” was a shared campfire. You gathered around Friends on Thursday night or discussed The Sopranos at the water cooler on Monday morning. It was a ritual. Today, the campfire has been replaced by a thousand flickering screens in a thousand dark rooms. The water cooler is now a Discord server pinging at 3:00 AM. Vixen.18.12.26.Mia.Melano.Prove.Me.Wrong.XXX.10... BEST
From appointment viewing to algorithmic anxiety, how entertainment became a 24/7 conversation with our own dopamine. We are drowning in abundance while starving for novelty
The danger is not that entertainment is bad. It's brilliant. The danger is that we have stopped distinguishing between the feed and the life. We now judge our own relationships against sitcoms. We measure our productivity against hustle-porn TikToks. We mourn characters harder than we mourn estranged uncles. It was a ritual
We have confused access with intimacy.