Another great episode! I was recently talking to my friend whose music has become very popular in recent years and we were discussing how artists of any kind now have to choose between either languishing in a financially unsustainable state of obscurity or purposefully inducing a full-blown cult of personality around themselves, and how that dynamic disproportionately favors particular personality types and forces a significant number of people to the margins, who in the past may have had a decent chance of sustaining themselves without needing such an extreme level of fame or exposure.
I actually wrote about something similar to this. If you’re familiar with the concept of Gaia, specifically its application in the foundation books, this pushes us closer to that.
Another great episode! I was recently talking to my friend whose music has become very popular in recent years and we were discussing how artists of any kind now have to choose between either languishing in a financially unsustainable state of obscurity or purposefully inducing a full-blown cult of personality around themselves, and how that dynamic disproportionately favors particular personality types and forces a significant number of people to the margins, who in the past may have had a decent chance of sustaining themselves without needing such an extreme level of fame or exposure.
I actually wrote about something similar to this. If you’re familiar with the concept of Gaia, specifically its application in the foundation books, this pushes us closer to that.