TV/Film has a way of naturally dumbing things down, the making of video content can get complicated, so the way your favorite book gets butchered into a movie is a natural consequence (RIP Tom Bombadil) between the writing style tailored for the screen, meeting episode length (gotta fit those ads in the time slot) YouTube pushes towards trending content lengths - like how every 4 minute topic is stretched into a 20 minute journey of how the creator came at the 4 minutes of content... The military brigade approach that film and TV employ to get the footage they need with continuity to some acceptable level etc. Writing about complex things has fewer (yet still infinite) hurdles.
I think different cultures can contribute to eachother, they don't have to hold hands. I'm sure open minded curious developers can look over the fence and appreciate the differences and adopt practical aspects of each other, maybe the time to stop and smell the roses is to poetic and altruistic. It's a JavaScript server/packager/framework drag race for pink slips!
A big part of the build out is government involved, there's no refferendum ballot for "don't spend public money feeding the circus" that tiger needs his three squares a day...
but uh here I am on a social media site rebroadcasting that message... I'll add that I'm for an open internet, I don't think we need age verification. Walled gardens have a lot more shade then alternatives. Becoming aware of the many forms of abstracted gambling (time, tokens, or otherwise) makes the internet a much more affordable and sane place.
I first started recompiling the world with 64MB of ram, kind of funny how far we've come on hardware and made software gobble up the gains with very little to show for it.
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