[agumonkey]

It's funny, I keep seeing this era the same way. There used to be such a different structure behind things. Everything was more expensive but we went to grab them because they were so superb. Also it imposed some kind of order.. those who managed to fabricate large things in front of the random nature of workgroups, social trends and audience desires got to grab the hero / fame status (for better or worse).

Today, available means flattens the whole landscape, you can indeed do everything at a fraction of the cost but so the goal vanished because there's nothing of greatness now ? (and many groups are in the "availability is key for .. whatever" .. I find the idea too naive)

This weird tension, or contrast, is interesting.

[foolfoolz]

think of it as “leveling the playing field” in which it over time asymptotically approaches shit

[agumonkey]

And I wonder how much of nature works the other way around, and how our biology is fit for unleveled playing fields. Make things hard to see who's the fittest.. not the other way around.