Physical media and movie theaters
I enjoy movie theaters. I know it’s just to sell me popcorn, but every once in a while I like the experience of going out to see a movie in an overwhelming environment. I don’t go out to see movies very often, so it feels special when I’m there. It’s been an important third location for many, and has been for many years. Although digital media has taken that third place for most these days, people still go to places like movie theaters and malls. It's just that things like online shopping and streaming services are taking over places you could go physically. Physical media is on a rise these days, and I consider movie theaters a part of that sometimes, but really it only relates to physical media, because of streaming services! ):< *opinions about streaming services*
Physical media is important, because it’s pretty gosh darn fun! I love things with a process attached to them which sounds like something that doesn't matter very much, but really it’s about using all of your five senses, and being connected to the world around you. It’s more stimulating for your brain, but also it’s actually cheaper than streaming! It’s like do you want more fun for less of your lunch? Of course I don’t! It's a pretty great feeling like a human who knows what they're doing, but do you? When I’m all tired, and doing things I need to get done on my computer it’s pretty distracting compared to real life doing things not on my computer. Like I love you, computers! You make my life easier, but I need a break from the distractions of the toxic internet. You are bored, while you have all the possibilities in front of you, but you don’t know what you want to do, so you watch a bit too much youtube, and half your evening? Gone. It’s alot harder to waste your precious time with physical media.
I also love owning things in the real world, because ownership means something physically. I just bought a book, but it’s digital. I can’t note pages. I can’t even perform the simple action that is sniffing a page. You don’t own the internet, you just own a file. It’s paying for something that dosn’t cost anything to make. Making one book is a ton of different processes in of it’s self. But even buying physical media is more detached than it should be.
When you go to the grocery store, and your buying your fruits, and vegetables your a lot more detached from the process of the fruits, and vegetables, and how they got there compared to a buying them at a stand where your acknowledging that the produce is there because this guy did it. In entertainment it’s like that too where people do so much media consuming they take less time to acknowledge the skills and hard work it takes for something. People just consume it and want better, and better things, and get angry if it takes a long time cause they don’t know about animation, or video game development. The anonymity of the internet allows more people to criticize things they aren't educated about, and say things their grandchildren's children will cringe at, because the internet lives forever.
Physical media is important in a society. At least in a society that doesn't like being taken advantage of. In this digital age products aren't made to be good on purpose, so you buy a new phone, but that's baloney because that phone was updated to make itself bad on purpose! Advertisement has always been around, but digital media makes most marketing so much more profitable, and contagious, and toxic, and it's everywhere! Physical media is selling something to make money of course, but it’s sold, and people buy it cause it’s good, and it holds up, and usually known for something no one else was brave enough to try. Marketing now isn’t as much about oh look these are the toughest, and smartest… pair of jeans you ever did see! It’s more like everyone knows this crappy pair of jeans because it’s the most expensive pair of crappy jeans. You know, like the one that actor had, and the one your friend's rich neighbor wears, so you should wear um too! Buy crappy jeans with your dads credit card! Just don’t tell anyone. Comparatively, older stuff had to push others to be the best of the competition. Now it’s plastic amazon junk with the only effort put into it being the data analysts deciding how to make you feel a little bad. Although, it has always been the consumers' fault.
The consumer is how physical media is dying. The consumer is how malls are empty. Gotta love malls by the way. The consumer is how this stuff continues beong profitable. In the lorax those trees wouldn’t die if the consumers were not around, but money is blood, and consumers there were. Really if we want a world that doesn't take advantage of us we have to not be a pushover. Hey it’s not okay my phone is crap! It was working fine the last time I drank orange juice with dinner! As consumers we decide what turns into the next product revolution. You can’t blame marketers completely, because everyone in the world needs blood, so if you like physical media ask for it. Demand it! Make it profitable!
Physical media is pretty awesome, and most of the times the world we live in is not. I just like living in a healthy way, and it’s good to realize when some aspects of your life arne’t healthy. It’s a thing a lot strive for. If you think physical media feels better to your brain I can’t tell it off. No one can stop you from enjoying a slow phone either. Sometimes I just prefer to feel real I guess. Whatever you do in an attempt to have meaning is normal for you, so pardon my neurodivergence, and have a wonderful day except if it’s the night, because if it is you most certainly should go to bed.
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