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Loving USA Culture (lemmy.world)
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[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

At some point to become a consumer your money and/or attention is voluntarily given to A Thing. That’s a choice. But with internet cookbooks, bandcamp, IMDb, CrunchyRoll, etc etc you have the ability to seek out precisely what interests you, with the only burden being discovery. Monoculture died with the internet, you being on Lenny is a testament to that.

[-] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Exactly, you think it's all personal responsibility. That the economics of culture have no impact (or are desirable?). Totally ignoring that access to culture is not deliberate. There are massive network effects and constant, unavoidable advertising. Your very tastes are shaped by society around you.

And lol at lemmy as an example. Social media and content aggregation is even more homogeneous than film/print/music/food. The fact that tiny countercultures exist doesn't disprove that.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 3 points 11 months ago

Monoculture died with the internet

My sides.

[-] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Right, pretty funny that this is parroted so thoughtlesly. I mean i see where it comes from but also... so obviously false.

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