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People are way more about consumption than creation lately. Their identities and pride are based not on objects they've created but on how well curated their collections of stuff are. Even creative works have leaned way more toward the mashup (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and etc, Girl Talk and his ilk.). Freedom of data is becoming an issue because people want to consume data instead of create. We're overencumbered with data, with products, with things to consume, and we're developing processing and reinterpreting skills instead of purely creative skills.
I think this might be useful and healthy, and the hipsters who curate instead of create are just honing skills our society will need as we create more and more data. Research is way less useful lately than interpreting, collating, reframing and drawing some kind of conclusion from existing research. We need to learn to be more efficient, use 3 pieces of research to draw 7 different conclusions (a, b, c, ab, bc, ac, abc) instead of just (a, b, c). Society needs a whole specialized class of librarians and archival specialists who can know a set of information and where to get certain things, and hopefully also know how to interpret that information.
What I'm saying is if our hippies want to be useless by collecting useless shit other people painted instead of painting useless shit it might not be all bad. Maybe we're going to need a lot more of the collecting and being hyper efficient in our use of things created and a little less of the pure production model. Instead I'll write things I don't think too hard about here and not bother to process or organize it at all.
I think this might be useful and healthy, and the hipsters who curate instead of create are just honing skills our society will need as we create more and more data. Research is way less useful lately than interpreting, collating, reframing and drawing some kind of conclusion from existing research. We need to learn to be more efficient, use 3 pieces of research to draw 7 different conclusions (a, b, c, ab, bc, ac, abc) instead of just (a, b, c). Society needs a whole specialized class of librarians and archival specialists who can know a set of information and where to get certain things, and hopefully also know how to interpret that information.
What I'm saying is if our hippies want to be useless by collecting useless shit other people painted instead of painting useless shit it might not be all bad. Maybe we're going to need a lot more of the collecting and being hyper efficient in our use of things created and a little less of the pure production model. Instead I'll write things I don't think too hard about here and not bother to process or organize it at all.