one reason we don't have as much great music/art/cinema these days is that being a celebrity totally sucks ass. incentives dwindling toward zero.

We are entering post-truth/we are already there. Last little exchange is indicative of this

Truth is just what you want it to be from here on out

Maybe an advantage for those who can see reality clearly

tell me time where this wasn’t the case and i’ll believe you. this is an over reaction

Fair. I guess it feels amplified now for some reason

I guess one thing that feels tangibly different is algofication on eg tiktok/X makes it so that people’s info/media consumption is highly localized - people literally experience a different reality in their heads based on their feed and it only gets further entrenched by the apps

In previous times it feels like most people consumed more or less similar info (ie like the newspaper) but their subjective interpretations were what differentiated them. Now the actual reality they experience is meaningfully different as to what they believe the truth to be