No disrespect to cobblers, I merely intended to allude to a profession that would not fill my days with fantasy. Not that cobblers can’t enjoy fantasy, they can. After all, some of them are magic elves who only come out at night to save a poor husband and wife from destitution. Surely a metaphor for the invisible underclass, enabling social mobility among the executive echelons of the pre war working class. Great read. Touched on some things that have been bringing me down. Thanks
Whoa. Is my interest in continuing my pursuit of things from college a means of "infantilization" or is that past whatever time in life is defined as infantile. Things to think about.
Please don't make fun of me: was this article intended to be satire, or is it meant to be taken seriously? Reading it felt like trying to get through something written by Derrida. Or like it'd been produced by one of those obfuscating jargon generators you can find online.
The article was essentially a Gawker beatdown. And yes, he quotes Baudrillard. In a self-referential blogpost without links. Without a great deal of context I can see how you'd have difficulty parsing it. He's basically saying "Yes, I do think modern culture infantilizes us all, just like I said, and I think it does this for financial reasons. I'm also not going to name names because I've made a crapton of money playing Scotty on JJ Abrams' Star Trek and I'm writing a bloody Star Wars movie, and Star Wars was Patient Zero of the infantilization which I describe so know that I'm aware I'm part of the problem. Finally, this is nothing new as the first major project I helmed (and starred in) was about a handful of GenX burnouts that were incapable of growing up and being adults so really, I'm not sure what you were expecting, guys."
The evolution of the Internet led to the balkanization of interests. There's a reason the "hearkening back" goes about as far as AOL - You can say "remember the Transformers?" and everybody does. You can say "Remember Robotech?" and... well kind of because the toys weren't as popular by a long shot and the show ran in syndication and what buzz there is behind Robotech is being driven by fans of non-denominational anime more than fans of actual Harmony Gold properties. By way of comparison everything after the Internet has been kept alive in a zombie-like state so they can continue to profit off of it through reminding you every now and then. Spiderman has been rebooted twice just in the time I've been in Los Angeles and WotC will keep Magic and Pokemon around as long as they humanly can because they've trained those fans to spend money in ways the D&D guys never did. "Who Shot JR?" was watched by 83 million people. That's almost as many people as watched Kony 2012 and there were two thirds as many people back then. They'll keep reminding you about Storm Troopers for as long as they humanly can because do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it is to make you fall in love with (shudder) Minions?