The 9ft alien of Twilight Zone episode lurks "to serve man" with all these new forms of consumption, but there is a hidden meaning "to serve" so as to make all previously illegible human actions+rituals legible to our alien esoteria, and therefore serving us as we seek to harvest. A dark thought.

But not in the manner that it realized, too focused on literal consumption dated to postwar schema. Totally neglecting the much newer intrusions into structure of daily life, you emphasize just one but justly as it is especially salient to any human being, which have more sustantially altered.

Mark Fisher: the unmistakable feeling of exhaustion as you resort to familiar sonic embrace, but at the expense of novelty which must invigorate, a comfort blanket

Harmut Rosa: The medium itself in which it is consumed, not embraced. Above link has a note on "consumption", which is right

An point which you didn't mention explicitly is that even in instances of people who listen almost exclusively to oldies and classical (i.e. people who have a Spotify listening age of 50+) there are two pyschological effects, a combo of Mark Fisher and Harmut Rosa

the most extreme ofc noted in this palladium piece www.palladiummag.com/2025/06/01/t... which I don't endorse but starts interestingly is South Korea

It's where I would start if I knew how to analyze this transformation. What has happened to South Korean music since 2000 @musefoundry.bsky.social

@musefoundry.bsky.social Your theory, if interpreted literally, is of course not wholly true, but it is a provocation "words are meant to be a bit wild as they are intended to provoke the unthinking into thought"

Would be interesting to test theory in other crisis of modernity case studies

The way to go viral is to write critiques as unseriously as possible apologies for dipping you into dredges of Discourse.....

Speaking of, a more interesting essay on a topic which has, more reasonably, been elevated to top, the dumbing of our minds. Can Mind be preserved under condition? How long?

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Breakthrough which I think we disagree I believe could occur will not by present methods which are imo same End of Theory folly which has gripped Big Data world since 2010ish

Need revolution not simply different clothes which implies world making models which refine that which human eye misses

Again and they presently make chicken nuggets!

Almost anybody who has worked very hard but without correct mindset (you have recounted your formative experiences in music) knows silly amounts of time wasted trying to brute force. Wisdom says take a walk change perspective

...to create a new language of resonance from within ourselves" in earlier work resonates almost perfectly with what this Romantic is feeling youtu.be/P_qZX3STfTY?...

Apparently some people are critical of Charles Taylor book on romanticism and wanted to know what you think because his description of modern condition since 1800 and manner in which Romantics articulated it as a condition of loss of commonplaces "publicly available language" but also relished"power

Predictably has coauthored a book with Harmut Rosa @musefoundry.bsky.social

Appears Polity has English rights to Loss but yet to be published

It's been a while since I interjected @musefoundry.bsky.social but this is a very inviting reference that connects directly to Hedgehog Review nostalgia and it's discontents essay

Walking around mildly affluent parts of America disorienting experience we've build Utopia, but it's empty

Including me will treat your recommendation seriously.

Note also the author has answer for his core. Writing in the late 40's, he had no idea just how far humanity would drift into "measuring attitudes on toothpaste"

Lippman Mastery or Drift frequently cited as an evocative binary to end drift must have some grounding in social concreteness

Perhaps hasty to interpret that, along with Goethe, Dewey most formative to your thought @musefoundry.bsky.social as I know others, notably Langer, have been added to your philosophical play but looking from distance core seems to me Goethe/Dewey

Not my core Goethe/Marx/Rosa, but Dewey untravelled

I don't agree with every word of this post but this on choice between embodied experience and abstract hackery is on point. Note my use of "boundary" abstraction can be enlightening just don't conflate it.

Reminds me of Lippmann on "routineers"

an extension of the "chicken nugget" analogy