At some point during the past decade, the information age entered what I can only think to refer to as a sub-epoch: the age of information overload. Instagram, Netflix, Reddit, BBC, Twitch, there is so much content and there are so many content creators, I couldn’t possibly give them all my time. But worse than that, my attention is being pulled in so many directions, I give these talented content creators barely any time at all.
Exquisite photographs and bewitching cinematography, once destined for the hallowed pages of national publications or a moment in front of millions on the silver screen, are now rammed into the content meat grinder, spat out of the same pipe outlet and forced along the social media conveyor. A dopamine burger for the masses.
