>>7661633>Even among populations that would have considered themselves 'intellectual' a decade ago, no longer have intellectual tastes when it comes to art.What you're seeing is a combo of lax screening/gatekeeping - meaning that the audiences you are looking at are not actually the same, they just occupy the same positions - and the spread in social constructionism. Meaning the belief that every conversation is a struggle for control over the narrative (which narrative? reality), and this devolves into tribalistic perspectives. If you view something any way other than how you're "supposed to" it means you get looked at with suspicion, lose status, or get ostracized.
But as I said, just leave the mainstream and you can find better more-authentic people. You have to actually leave it so you're far out, not just adjacent to it. The winning move is to not play the stupid games. Now that you're aware of it you can avoid people taking advantage of you via pressuring you to conform.
>>7661638The transition to digital has meant that a lot of shit has too many cooks in the kitchen. With cinema you have to people who demand changes constantly that would have been unfeasible if it were on film instead of a computer. This wastes so much time and money that any VFX guy readily will bitch about it if you give him the opportunity to.
On the financial end, there's also this avoidance of risk that just permeates everything. Everyone wants safe money. Maybe this was due to the 2008 crash, I don't know. People who went the opposite direction got rich off of crypto.
>>7661641I blame a general cultural zeitgeist.
My stance is tech-accelerationism is the way forwards so that culture can fragment further, and we get much more agile microcultures that can adapt to circumstance and figure out best practices instead of this big slow slug of a false idea of a shared commonality. Like, "don't be a dick" rules relied on the fact that most people online were from urban hubs early on.