Humor me (+poll)

@burginlewis Burgin Lewis
Mon, 20 Jan 2020 02:17:36 +0000

@burginlewis wrote:

I have been known to make comments like this.

I doubt I would make them if there were more intellectually stimulating content available.

My quibble is not that such "simple" content exists, that people enjoy it, or anyone's level of depth or wit or perception. It's that the default type of entertainment that the machine churns out is not to my liking, and it's not to my liking most often along that particular axis. FTR, I think it's also too violent, not diverse enough in truly enriching ways, and at present, too political... everything has to make a quasi-moralistic point now.

It's hard for me to blame only the machine for these "faults" when we know they make what polls show most people want. That doesn't mean I go around spouting and picketing that I believe the masses are asses, who only like movies with explosions and token characters and plots that make them feel more smug about their own world view. This is such a first world thing... not even a problem. I should be outside walking anyway.

But if you get on here and take a poll... 🤷