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He gone
Death to America
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he’s just gonna kill off the series and never release it, the most effective ‘unexpected death’ of the whole series
isn’t it kind of ghoulish to speculate on how a mans death might affect the flow of treats
A little, but the real ghoulish thing is the push for the treats to keep flowing.
The production of cultural products is becoming so completely commoditized and alienated from its producers that we’re already looking back with nostalgia on the days when that flow actually did stop. Sure I’d rather GRRM live to finish it, but there is far more comfort in the idea that he can still choose for it to end with him and escape becoming immortalized only as a zombie twitter account hocking NFTs for Disney.
A little, but the real ghoulish thing is the push for the treats to keep flowing.
The production of cultural products is becoming so completely commoditized and alienated from its producers that we’re already looking back with nostalgia on the days when that flow actually did stop. Sure I’d rather GRRM live to finish it, but there is far more comfort in the idea that he can still choose for it to end with him and escape becoming immortalized only as a zombie twitter account hocking NFTs for Disney.
Not really in this case. If you found out a cook at a restaurant you’d eaten at and liked was ill, I wouldn’t expect you to really care much besides that you can’t eat their cooking anymore. You just enjoy what they produce, any other feeling you might have is purely parasocial. There’s nothing wrong if you feel super sad when a favorite author or creator in general dies, we all get parasocial more or less sometimes, but it certainly wouldn’t be something I would care about if you didn’t care.
it’s less about a personal relationship and more about the level of consideration that is still owed a complete stranger. I don’t think much either way about the guy but I find public speculation about someones death a bit tasteless
