I don’t have a link and can’t be bothered to look it up.
Also somebody called it a “woke Jordan Peterson lecture” which made me wonder whether somebody is doing the whole jungian “helping young people to self-actualize” grift but without the reactionary baggage. Won’t be surprised there’s demand for that.
Leave it to the market to tell children fairy tales, because you are at work at your 2nd job, citizen.
Honestly makes me relate to the primitivist take that everyone used to participate in creating, sustaining and replicating of music, art and culture. Now those things are outsourced to a handful of professionals, while the wast majority have been downgraded to passive consumers.
That collective approach used to live on in folk art to some degree, and remnants of it are still found in subcultures heavy on the DIY aspect. After the mid 20th century move towards superstar cults, high “production values” and a complete commercialization and commodification of cultural production, i’d argue there’s been a strong countermovement in scenes like punk, hip hop and techno, in online communities centered around user-created content (memes, fanfiction, video essays etc.), in indie game development and so on. When i look at music production in particular, making and distributing your own recordings has never been easier and more egalitarian. We could easily live in the most creative society of all times if we’d get rid of media corporations and IP laws.
I feel like there’s a deeper problem here than corporations and IP law. A century ago my horrible screeching over a guitar might have been the best music people around me were going to get without a hussle of traveling to a music hall or something. Nowadays all of the world’s best music is a button press away. Same with the other forms of art.
That’s one of the things I like about ttrpgs. My friends can easily play much better games than stupid prototypes that I concoct in Unity, they can read better books than my half-baked short hard sci-fi stories. Sure, they might partake out of politeness and I don’t judge, I’ve been on the other end. But when I’m GMing they have no better choice than to deal with all the stupid shit that I’ve came up with or at least until they’ve made AI GMs.
Imagine believing what the first tweet says, and thinking it is a good thing. Love to give control of our collective consciousness to a corporation.
I mean, the first tweet is true, though. The dissemination of information through myth and story has been part of human society for tens of thousands of years. The ability to communicate information through abstract thought is, as far as we know, something that is unique to human beings. Prior to language and story, organisms could only transmit information to successive generations through their DNA. That makes storytelling a pretty cool thing. Sacred is kind of a loaded term, but you can easily replace it with “vital” if you want to remove the spiritual overtones. Disney has taken a hegemonic position in Western cultural myth, that can’t be disputed. This is obviously not a good thing if the liberal values being disseminated in Disney content are antithetical to your world view, but it doesn’t change the fact that Disney has a dominant position in the transmission of Western cultural information and values.
Why do I feel this is a lead up to a Mad Max style cult with a crucified Walt Disney bearing the sins of humanity alongside the Holy Ghost of Mickey Mouse or some other such insane shit?
Americans have no culture
We are the nothing, mindlessly spreading and destroying all
