>>121451>>121506>The internet forgets meme songs (more like trends now) in about a week or 2, maybe a month if they are lucky but that's something everyone here knowsIt's not just meme songs, all new culture is now quickly forgotten. It's because everything is now cynically designed to be disposable and easily digestable to game the algorithm for maximum points and currency. This isn't the actual truth of course it's just a metaphor for how things are and one that is all too familiar.
Take music for example: all the old songs and artists of the 20th century are still relevant even if they're no longer the "new thing" and they'll still be playing on the radio in the years to come. but all the new ones are quickly forgotten. A new song will trend for a few months and then it's dead and nobody will ever remember it existed in a few years. Which is essentially describing the situation the OP is mentioning.
I think it's why both nihilism and spirituality is on the rise. Things come and go, appear and disappear, they scream and shout and then they leave no trace behind, dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
In the face of such an existence it's either that or you double down on sticking your head in the sand and becoming a cog in the machine.
Gurdijeff said humans are robots and he's right, but what's happening is that this truth is now inexorably coming to light and maybe permanently. Before the Human narrative was able to occlude it. For example, getting a job. Nobody questioned that it was the Correct Path it was the way things are, now a lot question what's the point in getting a career if you're going to lose all your time with a job. Everyone's beginning to wonder what's the point in working the 9-5 grind so you can pay your taxes and buy a house and grease the wheels of the system.
The algorithmicization of everything has revealed the machinelike existences humans live. (Was this a fatal error the engineers overlooked? Not sure.)
You can tell by the words people are using now like "soul/soulless" like OP used. "Soul" is a spiritual and philosophical term which has absolutely nothing to do with art and yet now people are using it all the time to describe things that carry actual value and meaning deeper than their nominal socioeconomic value.
It might be why everyone is so enamored with AI. Some insightful anon said the AI they're building is still unconscious which means all those AI images are actual dreams it's having. People clawing their way desperately trying to return to dreamland.