[miiiiiike]

I was a huge X-Files kid growing up. I was 10 when The X-Files (and Brisco County Jr.) debuted and I watched "Encounters" on FOX in the years before.

Are we talking about the same 90's?

There's no one like you in your area? I hope you like sitting in your house alone. You saw half of a movie late at night? Heard a song in a show? Hold onto it, it might take you a decade to finally track it down (it was Land by Patti Smith.) Have an medical issue that the doctors in your area aren't interested in diagnosing? Good luck, I hope it's not progressive.

You had to fight for access to everything in the 90's. Even if you could track down the thing you want (big IF), actually getting it was SLOW. That book you finally found, it might be 2-3 months away.

Today is the best day in human history to be alive.

We have instant access to everything and yet we choose to waste our time on short-form garbage. We are the people Homer Simpson was designed to mock. Homer and the people of the 90's wasted their time watching whatever trash TV was sloshed into their troughs. We're watching whatever an algorithm is slopped into ours.

You live in a fantastic world with instant access to everything in recorded history and yet you choose to rot in front of YouTube.

Here's the secret. It's not the 90's, the 90's were nothing special. It's the Past World, the one that you can only see when you're looking back at it. The world that we live in today was built in the 90's and the world that we will live in tomorrow is being built today.

The world is and will be what we make of it.

Our current moment will pass. I want to see what we'll achieve in another 100 years and I'm jealous of the babies just getting started now. I hope that something that I make will be seen as a stepping stone towards something better.

[dingaling]

"You live in a fantastic world with instant access to everything in recorded history"

I hear this a lot, particularly from Millenials, and it's entirely incorrect.

There are vast amounts of information still only available in books, or on the shelves of archives.

Sure, the Internet might provide 99% of pop-culture information, but don't mistake that for 99% of knowledge.

[miiiiiike]

Name an important archive that isn’t in the process of being digitized or an unimportant one that’s likely to crumble before we get around to snapping a picture of its contents.

But if we look under the hood you can see where you’re taking an obvious exaggeration literally. See it? Right? That’s what’s making the thunking noise.

Over there on the left. No, your other left. There. The point is over there.

[Scroll_Swe]

>There are vast amounts of information still only available in books

You can get every book ever realeased in PDF or ePUB on the web my guy. Hello?

Just because your internet is just TikTok on your phone...

[snozolli]

You live in a fantastic world with instant access to everything in recorded history and yet you choose to rot in front of YouTube.

YouTube is full of excellent content. I regularly watch several highly skilled YouTubers the same way that I would watch Norm Abrams and Roy Underhill on PBS as a child.

As a child, I could have watched grifting religious folks or Public Access conspiracy peddlers on TV, too.

[miiiiiike]

Another response that (deliberately?) misses the point. I’m going to stop responding after this one.

Again, deliberate exaggeration. When I say “rotting in front of YouTube” the key to understand my point is the word “rotting”, not “YouTube”. Good work is done in every medium and on every platform.

[snozolli]

Another response that (deliberately?) misses the point.

First, when many people "miss the point", perhaps you should review your communication.

Second, perhaps you are missing the point that garbage has always been available and, generally, preferred by the masses.