@Gotterdammerung@glitch.social
Post #2718425
2026-05-05 17:32 UTC
More than cultural output, they reveal slop as lived environment. We inhabit slop. Even our physical world has been optimized into non-offensiveness. Color, like risk, has been diversified out of existence.
The video improves on my original argument: it introduces constraint. I wrote as though culture chose stagnation, seduced by speed & algorithms. But Eugene argues that stagnation is the rational outcome of precarity. Why buy a red couch if your lease expires in 11 months?
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@Gotterdammerung@glitch.social 2026-05-05 17:34
Why make a daring film if shareholders demand predictability? Why create anything strange when strangeness does not scale? IOW culture did not freeze due to laziness but cuz movement became economically irrational. Mark Fisher's ghost hovers over both our arguments but Eugene uses him more precisely: the shift from imagining futures to endlessly refurbishing the past is ideological exhaustion. We're not bankrupt of ideas, just lacking the permission to pursue them.