Freedom to say something everyone else agrees with isn't that valuable (it was never going to be censored anyway), freedom to say something that everyone disagrees with is incredibly valuable.
Forget left and right for a minute, in a lot of ways our culture has become incredibly conservative. Gen z is following a playbook followed by the millennials which was a playbook largely followed by Gen x which was a playbook written by the baby boomers. Some of the top properties in Media were created generations ago, depending on just how young you are, it might have been made by your great-great-grandfathers generation.
So a lot of the things that we end up seeing on the unrestricted internet are people trying to figure out a new way of being that isn't the ideology of our grandparents. For some people that means trying to return to the 1920s. For some people it means trying to return to the 1820s. For other people it means a completely and different path forward. Many of these things are considered taboo and we can't even talk about them on the mainstream internet because the mainstream Internet is conservative and will only allow the current orthodoxy to be discussed.
From that point of view, something like the new Scooby-Doo Velma remake is the perfect example. You take a property from 50 years ago, something where everyone who originally worked on it is probably dead of old age, and implement into it every single piece of the current cultural orthodoxy.
This isn't unprecedented. In the middle ages, the epic poem Beowulf survived but was partially rewritten to include references to Christianity, because that was the only way such an ancient work would be allowed to continue being disseminated.
Forget left and right for a minute, in a lot of ways our culture has become incredibly conservative. Gen z is following a playbook followed by the millennials which was a playbook largely followed by Gen x which was a playbook written by the baby boomers. Some of the top properties in Media were created generations ago, depending on just how young you are, it might have been made by your great-great-grandfathers generation.
So a lot of the things that we end up seeing on the unrestricted internet are people trying to figure out a new way of being that isn't the ideology of our grandparents. For some people that means trying to return to the 1920s. For some people it means trying to return to the 1820s. For other people it means a completely and different path forward. Many of these things are considered taboo and we can't even talk about them on the mainstream internet because the mainstream Internet is conservative and will only allow the current orthodoxy to be discussed.
From that point of view, something like the new Scooby-Doo Velma remake is the perfect example. You take a property from 50 years ago, something where everyone who originally worked on it is probably dead of old age, and implement into it every single piece of the current cultural orthodoxy.
This isn't unprecedented. In the middle ages, the epic poem Beowulf survived but was partially rewritten to include references to Christianity, because that was the only way such an ancient work would be allowed to continue being disseminated.
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