+ Marco responds to my minirant
marco:unalone:Jesus Christ. I tell you people that a 5-minute game made me cry, that it’s one of the greatest and most beautiful things I’ve ever seen, and a total of one person replies. I post a picture of a camera lens coffee cup, and I get 87 notes as of this writing.This isn’t indicative of the decline of society or people having shallow taste. The lens mug has far better appeal to this audience than a sad video game. I bet the Shiba puppy cam got a lot more fans, too. Sorry, but people enjoy things that make them feel good.
Point taken.
Nah man, I don’t accept that.
People have to challenge themselves, the world is full of a lot of people who just settle for whatevers in front of them. Passage may be sad, but its a masterpiece about love and life expressed in a new medium like never before - it’s much more of a masterpiece than that stupid coffee cup (which is cool, but at the end of the day is a fucking product).
TUMBLE ADVENTUROUSLY.
Not that it should be taken that seriously but Marco’s response kind of reminded me of Brave New World. People floating around in a smiley drug-induced haze, conditioned to be eternally content and to want it that way. Easy to control and too numb to care or even notice.
Sometimes I just feel like I’m wading through a sea of barfily trite images and quotes. Or smart-ass memes that are good for one laugh. And I’m as guilty as anyone. Photos of a lone cabin all aglow in some snowy forest? Im all over that shit. Instantaneous sensations of coziness and warmth and feel-goodness. What is “shallow” if not that? Eye-candy has no nutritional value whatsoever.
People can obviously do whatever they want with their blog. But just to FILL UP your tumblr with stuff that’s basically interchangeable and mindlessly easy to appreciate and unarguably aesthetically pleasing — I mean, fuck. Your tumblr is just a half-price Nicholas Sparks book. In massmarket paperback.
So yeah. I try to only follow people whose posts consistently challenge, inspire or provoke me. But those tumblrs are hard to find because others rarely reblog them. “Does this take less than 5 seconds to skim? No? Ok, next.” That’s the problem with Tumblr. And it’s disheartening to see the lead developer defending this.
(Case in point: I wonder who even read this far.)
