Why media is so boring and unimaginative: Nobody is taking chances and doing anything new and interesting, they're following the same playbook we've followed our entire lives.
The boomers built this road, and Gen X follows it, and the Millenials follow it, and Gen Z follows it, and Gen Alpha is being raised on it. It's conservative despite what it purports to be because there's an orthodoxy that cannot be violated.
It's so conservative that despite things like "first black [X] in movies/TV" having been a problem already solved 60 years ago, and things like "first gay [X] in movies/TV" being solved 40 years ago, companies are constantly falling over themselves to pretend they're the first because they're following a generations old playbook that ran out of pages long ago.
Why else do you think America has the oldest president in the country's history? Why else do you think the American congress is the oldest in the country's history? Why else do you think the American senate is the oldest in the country's history?
Does this look really like a country (and by extension a culture) that looks like it's embracing new ideas and change?
The boomers built this road, and Gen X follows it, and the Millenials follow it, and Gen Z follows it, and Gen Alpha is being raised on it. It's conservative despite what it purports to be because there's an orthodoxy that cannot be violated.
It's so conservative that despite things like "first black [X] in movies/TV" having been a problem already solved 60 years ago, and things like "first gay [X] in movies/TV" being solved 40 years ago, companies are constantly falling over themselves to pretend they're the first because they're following a generations old playbook that ran out of pages long ago.
Why else do you think America has the oldest president in the country's history? Why else do you think the American congress is the oldest in the country's history? Why else do you think the American senate is the oldest in the country's history?
Does this look really like a country (and by extension a culture) that looks like it's embracing new ideas and change?
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