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by burnto·7mo ago·view on hn ↗
It’s fast food content. Convenient, cheap, fast, tasty, but also monotonous, unsophisticated, unhealthy, habit-forming.

People consume more and more of it until they get sick, and even then won’t stop.

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This has already described much of pop culture for decades, though. Turns out that humans actually like slop.
"Turns out humans actually like heroin." -- antisocial scumbag justifying being an antisocial scumbag.
What I'm saying is that if you want to make that analogy, be consistent and take it all the way. We are already on heroin, have been for a long time, this is just the age when it's cheap and abundant like never before.
> Turns out that humans actually like slop...

... more than being bored.

Not really? For the past few decades even truly exotic and unusual preferences could be accommodated, but people still prefer certain things which we identify as "pop culture" - and it's mostly slop.