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Movies are just so passive. I’d rather talk to someone, and I’m not a talker. I’d rather read a book; books are also passive, but they’re more immersive. I’d rather, I dunno, play laser tag. What if all the cinemas die and become laser tag arenas, eh? I’m sure there’ll be something. There’s no reason to stress about the life and death of cinema.

Cinema may be a bubble of sorts. It got more and more and more and more expensive over time. It got better and better, but not as fast as it got more expensive. The amount of gatekeeping went up massively, too. People here talk about conspiracy theories. That probably doesn’t hit the mark, but it notices something real: knowing the right people has become more basic to cultural success than doing something novel or joyous. All culture has to be compliant, now. It kinda sucks.

Part of why I favor basic income programs is because as society develops its economy into a final, largely automated state, more and more of what is basically desirable to accomplish becomes the search for an optimal culture. That flow of money would get butts into cinemas, I’m sure. It would amplify desirable services all over. It might not save cinema from its own price escalation.

I wonder if there’s a sense that movies are a tired art, and society needs to go on with life in general for a while in order to produce new basic narratives. The commercialization of culture reaches so hard into insincerity and exaggeration sometimes. I wonder also if there’s a tiredness with current market leaders. The real basis of the economy is the resource basis of the economy. Maybe we’d be more prosperous turning cinemas and movie theatres into meatvats and organ fabrication facilities.