I wonder if it's as much about basic building blocks of human consciousness as it is about laziness and easy access to creativity that has been dumbed down to feed human consumption.
The fact that there were maybe five people doing something creative at some point of time when apps weren't all the rage..now we've five thousand people doing the same thing, just because downloading an app to add vignettes and blue grey effects has become that easy. Now everyone's doing it. And apps are intelligent, they give you a limited set of values to get creative, with permutations and combinations of your choosing, and there you are. Making art out of confined space through a shoe box vision that an app has provided you.
When twitter replaced stars to hearts, it wasn't as much a change as it was falling into line with the prevailing norm of hearting everything you like. Instead of being different, it slowly became everything that already exists.
Is it that much about hating change as it is about being lazy and not wanting to do something different, or breaking moulds or the fact that every idiot on this planet has easy access to being creative, and the fact that being creative has been made that easy. Conveyer belt creativity so to say.
It's like every monkey has a bucketful of feces and an endless white wall to paint as they will. So all day long they Jackson Pollock the shit out of that wall, and they're encouraged to do so, and some lesser brained chimps marvel at their shitpieces, and each day this monkey population keeps growing.
This is probably the best time to boost your vanity, and the golden age to be dumb. Not that there's anything wrong with either.. the problem is that shit flinging monkeys live to sounds of applause, while somewhere out there might be a rainbow coloured sloth who goes totally unnoticed..again probably because of shit loving lesser minded chimps who're resolved to dumb down every second. It's a full circle. And this isn't just about apps, it's everything, everywhere..yeah, the movies, the music, everything.
It's like 'hey man, if they love shit, let's give 'em more crap'.
Mayhaps it's a part of our evolution, the fact that it's alright is it's 'just okay', awesome even..and yeah I don't want to say it, horribly cliche as it sounds but also commercialization. Milk them udders until they're stone and milk them still.
Now when you got everyone doing the same thing with small tweaks and cute interfaces, the world does go gaga, but it doesn't change the fact that it's similar shitprint on a different space of a clean white wall.
The fact that there were maybe five people doing something creative at some point of time when apps weren't all the rage..now we've five thousand people doing the same thing, just because downloading an app to add vignettes and blue grey effects has become that easy. Now everyone's doing it. And apps are intelligent, they give you a limited set of values to get creative, with permutations and combinations of your choosing, and there you are. Making art out of confined space through a shoe box vision that an app has provided you.
When twitter replaced stars to hearts, it wasn't as much a change as it was falling into line with the prevailing norm of hearting everything you like. Instead of being different, it slowly became everything that already exists.
Is it that much about hating change as it is about being lazy and not wanting to do something different, or breaking moulds or the fact that every idiot on this planet has easy access to being creative, and the fact that being creative has been made that easy. Conveyer belt creativity so to say.
It's like every monkey has a bucketful of feces and an endless white wall to paint as they will. So all day long they Jackson Pollock the shit out of that wall, and they're encouraged to do so, and some lesser brained chimps marvel at their shitpieces, and each day this monkey population keeps growing.
This is probably the best time to boost your vanity, and the golden age to be dumb. Not that there's anything wrong with either.. the problem is that shit flinging monkeys live to sounds of applause, while somewhere out there might be a rainbow coloured sloth who goes totally unnoticed..again probably because of shit loving lesser minded chimps who're resolved to dumb down every second. It's a full circle. And this isn't just about apps, it's everything, everywhere..yeah, the movies, the music, everything.
It's like 'hey man, if they love shit, let's give 'em more crap'.
Mayhaps it's a part of our evolution, the fact that it's alright is it's 'just okay', awesome even..and yeah I don't want to say it, horribly cliche as it sounds but also commercialization. Milk them udders until they're stone and milk them still.
Now when you got everyone doing the same thing with small tweaks and cute interfaces, the world does go gaga, but it doesn't change the fact that it's similar shitprint on a different space of a clean white wall.
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