It's true. Often I blame industry for thinking that music (and movies, etc...) was something to be owned rather than the product of culture and therefore part of our cultural legacy and endowment. I cannot help but feel that this, as well as the boring and homogenous nature of the media cycle, was what net-neutrality activists were on about. sigh...
Many of my closest friends are gamers and every now and then they pull me in on a discord chat. We play "Among Us" or I watch them play "WoW". When I asked one friend about movies he simply said that he would rather do something where he had the agency to affect the outcome. I was reminded that before I knew how to play an instrument or taught myself to draw, that the best I could do was to dream that I was someone who could play like Eric Clapton or whomever. This passive satisfaction and desire to be (or be like) another person is maybe better left dead. OTOH, speaking to a cultural endowment, my childhood was spent in two cities with amazing art museums, orchestras, and that *subtle disruptor* that is architecture. I cannot emphasize enough the impact that seeing master works has had on me, the importance of witnessing what has been done before and what humans can accomplish. May videogames reach such heights. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
