roachboy

people still make things with great care and attention, but seemingly not at the scale that enables much of it to work it's way into the Big Commodity Spectacle.
for example, in music--if you only focus on commercial material, you'd probably think that things had gone to hell in a handbasket (with the occasional exception that keeps you interested enough to be able to complain about things having gone tohell in a handbasket)---but there's an extraordinary amount of really interesting, carefully assembled work out there that you probably don't know about unless you've either been hipped to or or actively sought it out. most of it operates on smaller scales, scenes and networks of scenes. same is true of the other types of creative work that i know about. it's an interesting time.

personally i think people are passive and like to like what they're told they like to like. that what they're told they like to like changes gives the impression of variety. mostly, though, people are told they like liking endless variants on what they've already been told they like to like. maybe folk really do prefer the same all the time. i prefer to think it's a Giant Aberration. i'm pollyanna like that.

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

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