didn't realize that deadspin article about Netflix which I thought was sort of so so was by Sean T. Collins...https://longreads.com/2019/03/29/on-flooding-drowning-the-culture-in-sameness/ …
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It wasn't bad; that first graph everyone quotes is very good.
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amusingly, I've written the piece about how everyone has to write about the same thing at the same time several times. Here's one.https://newrepublic.com/article/121874/critics-shouldnt-bow-game-thrones-or-marketing-pressure …
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idk; everybody pretty much ignored it. (maybe why I don't get to write culture pieces for TNR very often anymore.) I'm sure lots of other people have said the same thing I did.
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I'm actually reading Robert H. Frank's excellent book on the myth of meritocracy, which talks about how more and more a smaller and smaller number of people reap bigger and bigger success...
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we're partly in the grip of communication infrastructure, is the basic point.
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also people want to talk about what everyone else is talking about. Write about obscure albums and people are like, eh, no one's talking about that, who cares? (trust me, I know.)
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I care, but I'm not paying you
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i'll take that countdown of obscure albums -- often esoterica i've never heard of but now might be inclined to seek out -- over arguments that more or less coincide with what i'm already thinking (except maybe for some fine-grain particulars i see no need to debate).
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @nberlat
of course i feel that way about my own stuff, i'll try to avoid lobbing the fastballs over the middle unless i REALLY need to get that content out the door (like when I wrote about deBoer on the SAT)
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