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That would not work because that's now how people work. People watch/play media to connect to others. How can you talk about anything to anyone or have any shared culture when other people will never see what you see?

Movies, books, games, are a collective culture, not an individualist one. I don't know about you, but when I like an experience, I want to share it with others.



To be blunt about it, I can't help but imagine that the people who make such comments (and I've seen quite a few recently) are just complete philistines. They're the same people who can't draw, write, play, sing, design, or anything else and yet think they know what's good.

It's almost as if they think the purpose of art or entertainment is to stimulate some particular part of the brain and everything else between that and the screen/speakers/canvas/whatever is just an inconvenience that ought to be dispensed with as soon as technology allows.




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