Are we just bored?
Seriously. Are we just bored?
What do I mean? Let me explain myself.
Lately, I feel like America has peaked. We've reached the endgame of capitalism, and now there is nothing really novel or new to discover. There's this sensation that there is nothing truly original anymore, which perhaps is why Hollywood is obsessed with Franchises and Remakes more than original content. But even the original content that's getting produced isn't all that original, that it's just using a genre formula to birth original content.
But there's more than that. Now we're starting to truly reach godlike powers in the realm of physics, and whatever breakthrough happens next, we won't really be ready for, but it will be highly original. But we've satisfied all of our immediate comforts (as it appears). The systems could be far better and far less destructive, and of course Climate Change is like some kind of Endgame boss that is less of a pleasure to fight and more of an egregious necessity, something that makes us groan but also we don't really have anything better to do (which is not, by the way, the attitude we should be taking towards it at all, but oh well).
Right now, there is no truly novel direction for us to go in, just whatever we prefer. Science, Religion, Art, whatever aren't experiencing true moments of unprecedented growth or revelation or revolution, they're just sort of coexisting as people are introduced into their different tracks.
The truth is that there is spectacular room for growth and development; the challenges ahead of us with Climate Change, Data Science, Quantum Physics etcetera are fascinating, detailed, and worthy of our motivation. But, for whatever reason or another, there is no truly unifying excitement over it. There is no grand direction, just splinters of different factions going in their own little directions.
I have a feeling this is going to change soon. I certainly hope it does, for our sake. I have a feeling we will decide to get up off our asses and learn to be excited about the challenge ahead of us, instead of staying on the sofa all day flipping through the channels and watching reruns of our favourite TV shows. Humans crave originality, we crave the path forward. We crave evolution by rising to the challenges we've put off.
So right now? Yes we're bored with the Endgame. But hopefully not for much longer.
What do I mean? Let me explain myself.
Lately, I feel like America has peaked. We've reached the endgame of capitalism, and now there is nothing really novel or new to discover. There's this sensation that there is nothing truly original anymore, which perhaps is why Hollywood is obsessed with Franchises and Remakes more than original content. But even the original content that's getting produced isn't all that original, that it's just using a genre formula to birth original content.
But there's more than that. Now we're starting to truly reach godlike powers in the realm of physics, and whatever breakthrough happens next, we won't really be ready for, but it will be highly original. But we've satisfied all of our immediate comforts (as it appears). The systems could be far better and far less destructive, and of course Climate Change is like some kind of Endgame boss that is less of a pleasure to fight and more of an egregious necessity, something that makes us groan but also we don't really have anything better to do (which is not, by the way, the attitude we should be taking towards it at all, but oh well).
Right now, there is no truly novel direction for us to go in, just whatever we prefer. Science, Religion, Art, whatever aren't experiencing true moments of unprecedented growth or revelation or revolution, they're just sort of coexisting as people are introduced into their different tracks.
The truth is that there is spectacular room for growth and development; the challenges ahead of us with Climate Change, Data Science, Quantum Physics etcetera are fascinating, detailed, and worthy of our motivation. But, for whatever reason or another, there is no truly unifying excitement over it. There is no grand direction, just splinters of different factions going in their own little directions.
I have a feeling this is going to change soon. I certainly hope it does, for our sake. I have a feeling we will decide to get up off our asses and learn to be excited about the challenge ahead of us, instead of staying on the sofa all day flipping through the channels and watching reruns of our favourite TV shows. Humans crave originality, we crave the path forward. We crave evolution by rising to the challenges we've put off.
So right now? Yes we're bored with the Endgame. But hopefully not for much longer.
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