I hate how you can't have any sort of attachment to anything under capitalism. Nothing matters, everything is slop to be consumed and thrown away so you can buy more slop. Caring about anything is something to be mocked.
Everything made by capitalism just keeps getting more and more hollow. Hardly is it allowed to just be creative people having fun or telling their story anymore. Even the rare times something good gets wings, it eventually gets taken away by capital, like what happened to the Disco Elysium dev team.
I see it happen over and over again. The people make something good, it gets popular, capitalism buys it and then strips it for parts, it then becomes a focus tested product that ends up being a hollow shell of itself.
It happened to music. It happened to books. It happened to movies and TV. It happened to games. It happens to everything. A cynical contempt for both creatives and consumers and even the product itself seems to radiate from the corporations responsible.
I living in this age we do makes it seem this way, but that doesn’t mean that is the case. Everything is being fabricated/emulated to bend to the existing order- creativity and realness are out there if you look hard enough.
That’s the glass half full side of my brain
OK, people keep saying it seems that way, but if the way it seems is the same as what post people perceive as true, why does the difference matter? If you’re saying I can find creativity in this day and age if I know how to evade a ubiquitous profit-driven system that poisons all humanity, you are telling me to go on a fucking journey and hope I get lucky. How is that in and of itself not inherently wiping out creativity?
That’s the glass half empty side of my brain. And unfortunately that side seems to be much more reasonable, no matter how much it brings the vibe down and makes people uncomfortable. I guess this has helped me understand that it’s really hard to look at technology, unwavering support for capital everywhere and not immediately go full luddite. Because yeah technology is a tool, but what do you do when a tool becomes a system? You get fucking AI painting and writing music