Dark Horizon - a race for worthless numbers?
As countless articles, and reality itself, have likely already made clear, the degradation of art is evident across all industries and artistic fields, and a generation raised on it is bound to develop poor references and weak critical abilities. It’s the island metaphor in action: If someone is born on an island and never leaves it, their entire world is a narrow stretch of land, with scant fauna and flora compared to what lies beyond. Standards collapse not just because people are incapable of judgment, but because comparison disappears . When the surrounding cultural ecosystem is shallow, repetitive, or optimized for speed and consumption, it rewires what “good” even means. Given the current state of the world, replacing the island with a miniature junkyard would offer a more realistic picture. Is the countdown to the end already running? Still using the metaphor of the island and the floating garbage dump: if you know the big world and are cast onto an island for a decade, a ...