Something I can’t quite wrap my head around is: it feels like “everyone” knows we’re losing something in this era of social media and AI slop. Movies are “better” than Tik Tok videos. And yet, I guess people said the same thing when TV came out and replaced books as the primary media?
It’s very weird to wonder what is on the other side of all this “progress”. I can’t tell if people actually believe it will be better or know it will be worse, but I guess, using history as a guide, I think I would say that we know it’s a race to the bottom and we’re digging faster anyways.
Maybe one question is motion pictures brought about both sitcoms and cinema, is there a high art equivalent to tik tok videos? I guess it would continue to be cinema. Twitter want really a new category, just a lower form of “books”.
techblueberry•1mo ago
It’s very weird to wonder what is on the other side of all this “progress”. I can’t tell if people actually believe it will be better or know it will be worse, but I guess, using history as a guide, I think I would say that we know it’s a race to the bottom and we’re digging faster anyways.
Maybe one question is motion pictures brought about both sitcoms and cinema, is there a high art equivalent to tik tok videos? I guess it would continue to be cinema. Twitter want really a new category, just a lower form of “books”.