Is it just me or does our world feel like cardboard.
You know, everything starts to look and sound the same. Is this something that just comes with age, or has most everything around us become truly homogenized?
I moved from Maine to Nashville last year. I was excited to move to Music City. After all, I’ve written over 1500 songs. But it didn’t take long to notice something about this place. Everything looks the same.
I live in a mega apartment complex that looks like all the other mega apartment complexes. I drive to work and pass the strip malls that all look the same and house the same businesses that I see in most cities across America.
I go downtown and hear the same music blaring out of bars that are only different by name. Young musicians are playing the same cover songs over and over again.
I turn on the radio to hear music that has an electronic beat and programmed chord progressions and autotune that makes the vocals sound perfect.
I get online to see the same five news stories spun by 20 different talking heads. Video production all starts to look the same. And now AI is giving us perfect-looking people that don’t really exist. It’s cardboard.
Is it just me? Or has our world become consistently more boring and cardboard-like over the last 20-30 years?
I’ve got nothing against Nashville or Las Vegas or Phoenix or Seattle or Kansas City, but it’s really starting to feel like it doesn’t matter where you are in America. It looks and feels just like where you were last week.
Perhaps the only escape is to get back to nature. – dse
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