Reply #8: True, but why? [View All]

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A facile answer would be that people are just lazy, but that's just a lazy answer. Why are they intellectually lazy?

My take is that there is so much information to assimilate that most people automatically spend most of their lives in receiving mode. There's too little time and too much distraction for people to digest and reinterpret the information in a personal way. This plays to the benefit of corporations that want more perfect consumers of information, not consumer/producers. The result - blandness and formulaic shallowness in songwriting, storywriting, moviemaking, interpersonal discourse, and politics.

For people to do otherwise means constant effort, and most are too distracted with the day-to-day intricacies of modern life to even be aware that they need to digest what they have.